Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was no great increase in the national poll. Last year some 14,040,000 electors voted; this year about 14,186,000. Then Mr. Bonar Law polled in round figures about 5,300,000 Unionist votes; now Mr. Baldwin has polled practically the same 5,360,000. With regard...
The fact that government is directly based upon party politics is not in itself objectionable; the English system is a frank acceptance of the dominance of parties in national government. But partly because of the constitutional disregard of this factor in American government, the "machines" secretly control the legislatures of...
"There are now 376 lawyers in Congress", said Mr. Morrison yesterday in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Instead there should be about 200 labor men, 200 farmers, 100 business men, and minorities should be represented in proportion to their numbers." Mr. Morison himself has a bachelor of laws degree...
Long Live the King. It is becoming the fixed opinion of a large proportion of the population that Jackie Coogan is the one public character whom America cannot afford to lose. Each time he reappears in a new film the adjective army passes jauntily before the cinema reviewers and is...
"This syndication makes it possible for Mr. Hearst to pay salaries which are far beyond the means of the single newspaper. Not only among his employees but those of competing syndicates, salaries of $50,000 or $60,000 for authors and cartoonists are not uncommon, while a few go well...