Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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League Council Power Organ...
...Council has, in fact, done good work in smoothing over difficulties of a minor nature and in paving the way to better relationship through gentle pressure upon various governments. But it has been, to date, unable to handle the larger issues satisfactorily. After all, the League Council is the organ of the larger powers and in its discussions the conflicting interests of these powers are bound to make themselves felt. The minorities, at least, are convinced that there is little to be hoped for from the secret pourparlers of the leading statesmen. In 1926 Germany was admitted to the League...
Antiprohibitionists have reached down in their pockets, pulled out cash and founded another organ to fight propaganda with propaganda, Dry with Wet. Freedom is the new organ's name, a monthly published in Manhattan by the so-called National Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment,* "for Constitutional Government, repeal of the prohibition laws and restoration of the Bill of Rights." Fifteen thousand copies of the first issue were printed and circulated last week. It was mostly free circulation, but subscriptions were solicited...
...Sudbury, Ont., one Aarvo Vaara, Editor of the Finnish-Canadian news organ Vapaus was fined $1,000 and sentenced to six months in jail for printing a tirade in which he compared the "misery of the working class" to the comforts surrounding George...
Every Manhattan news organ has now noticed this divorce broker. The small-town press has ballyhooed him in syndicated feature stories. Tabloid editors have gleefully plastered up headlines to the effect that Arturo del Toro is the "enemy of Cupid, the "king of divorce," the "boss of the Border bright lights...