Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigorously opposing. The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days is that a man with an eight-hour day can make extra money working extra hours, but a woman in an eight-hour-day-for-women state is prohibited from toiling a minute beyond the alloted period. "Such restrictions, said Miss Laughlin" have been camouflaged under the name of 'welfare legislation,' but . . . relegate women to jobs so undesirable and poorly paid that men do not want them. President Coolidge told the delegation that when a majority of U. S. women were unmistakably in favor wiping...
...Convention in Paris (TIME, May 2). Further, the Chamber appropriated 3,700,000 francs ($145,000) for the Legionnaires' entertainment and decreed the issuing of a special postage stamp to be licked by Legionnaires and stuck upon their letters home. Many of these stamps, valid for the convention period only, will be treasured by thrifty recipients, locked away in strong boxes, brought out decades hence and bartered for gain...
Because Persia lies strategically at the side door of India and at the back door of Russia,* a struggle to dominate the Government of Persia was waged between British and Russian agents, up to the period of the World War, on a basis of flagrant bribery and corruption. Amid the idealistic post-War period Persia barely escaped falling to the British Empire as a "mandate." Then the power of Soviet Russia gathered might, and the old Anglo-Russian struggle began again at Teheran. Finally the Government of Persia turned (or was swayed by British pressure) toward...
...order is attuned to the times. It vibrates in harmony with the best thought in America. Those who can read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...
...first volume, "The Agricultural Era," carries the story to the pre-Civil War period, from which "The Industrial Era" continues it to the present. The second volume is perhaps the more important, dealing with a less colorful period but one through which fewer able historians have ventured. Authors Beard write in what has been regarded as the proper manner for historians since Tacitus published his Annals, with taciturn detachment, thoughtful compactness, dignity...