Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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sense of the word. In the pre-War sense...
...Department of the Interior, through its Bureau of Education, allied itself with the National Congress of Parents and Teachers* in a "concerted" campaign to admonish the parents of schoolchildren to prepare their offspring, physically and mentally, during the summer, for school in the fall. This pre-schcol preparation was to be accomplislied by physical examinations, instruction in discipline, proper conduct in the home...
...Haynes protested. Most of Ohio's politicians protested. For Mr. Haynes and Miss Hopley are close friends of the Anti-Saloon League, whose home and stronghold is Ohio. Hoke Donithen, Coolidge pre-Convention manager in Ohio, protested; C. C. Crabbie, Attorney General of Ohio, voiced his disapproval. Senator Willis, ponderous Ohioan, who hopes some day to follow the exalted path that the late Senator Warren G. Harding trod before his death, paid a personal call on Mr. Andrews. Anon, all the protesters came out by the same door where in they went...
Labor faces the problem differently, but with equal logic. The volume of wages is higher than in 1913, but their value, owing to high prices, etc., is somewhat under the pre-War standard of 1913. Under such circumstances labor can see no justice in the proposals of the capitalists to reduce wages, but is apparently blind to two things...
...year ago. Normally there are 500,000 constantly out of work in Britain, and, taking into consideration that 200,000 workers are now entitled a dole which they were not last year and therefore did not figure in the official list of unemployed persons, the actual increase over the pre-War situation is 700,000 and the real increase over last year's figures is less than...