Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Individual Chambers of Commerce participating in a National Chamber referendum are limited to a certain number of votes, which are in proportion to their local memberships. The Niagara Falls Chamber of Commerce now has six such votes. On Referendum No. 50, each of a group of 50 members particularly interested
Devices: To persuade both political parties to stand for a national Prohibition referendum. To send two letters, costing 5c each, to the 27,000,000 citizens who will register to vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting...
M'Lennan, who has directed the university's physical laboratory since 1907, for 30 years has been compaigning for a Canadian National Research Institute. To the eating officials last week he said that he did not wish to be personal, but that he could not keep from criticizing...
Of particular interest is the fact that there is still a large increase in the proportion of men who have undergone tonsil and adenoid operations, 39 per cent having had the undesirable members removed this year while only 33 per cent were recorded for the previous year.
The play starts back in slavery days, a few years before the Civil War had brought about the legal emancipation of the colored race. The central theme, in which the action of the whole play is centered with more than usual intensity, is built around the life of a mulatto...