Word: pied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That Republican women may have their fingers in the political pie as much as Democratic women is the object of a letter which Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania wrote to John T. Adams, Chairman of the Republican National Committee. In 1920 at San Francisco the Democratic Convention decided that there should be one man and one women to represent each State on the Democratic National Comittee. Republican women want a similar privilege. On the Republican Executive Committee there are eight men and eight women, but since the officers of the Republican National Committee are ex-officio members of the Executive Committee...
Sixty Cents An Hour. Ever since the recoil of a certain obese comedian from the comedy centers of California a gentleman named Walter Hiers has been striving for the heavyweight custard pie championship. Sixty Cents An Hour is his latest. For that strange stratum of the commonwealth which derives amusement from watching a ton lump of humanity at his wooing the venture is doubtless entertaining...
...Democratic Party. It has a pie-ful of candidates to set before the people...
...Government, he saw, had oceans of money to spend, and, being a Government, it was a good deal easier to take money away from it than from any sort of private business, if you were clever and tactful. He decided he must have his finger in that golden pie...
Paternalism is the prime fault that Europeans criticize in American universities. The administration has its finger in every student pie, as the foreigner sees it. The tendency has been for the authorities to make the path too well defined; the modern idea is to give the individual more and more freedom, to place the student more on his own responsibility, and to cut down the "you must" attitude. The "News", in one of its editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service...