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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Can Protect Public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV ALLEN DECRIES LABOR'S POLICIES | 4/26/1921 | See Source »

...State has the right to protect the public against a strike in an essential industry", contended Governor Allen, "in spite of the protests of Gompers. Therefore the Kansas legislature passed a law at special session preventing economic pressure either by employers or by labor. The bill was passed with only four dissenting votes in the Senate, and seven in the House. The bill has been in force for thirteen months, and the Industrial Court has passed judgment on twenty-eight cases, only one of which has been appealed to the Supreme Court of the State which is the higher authority...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV ALLEN DECRIES LABOR'S POLICIES | 4/26/1921 | See Source »

...greatest achievement of the Roosevelt administration was undoubtedly the building of the Panama Canal. For over fifty years we had been guaranteed open transit across the Isthmus, but had been forced repeatedly to intervene, often at the request of Columbia, who owned Panama, in order to protect our interests there. After the failure of the French canal project, the United States undertook the task of the construction of the water route across the continent. As long as there was a possibility that the United States would locate operations in Nicaragua, the Colombian government favored the Panama plan. But after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOGOTA TREATY | 3/16/1921 | See Source »

...hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony of his delinquency will never meet the eye of Dean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR THE GOOD OF THE GOODIES | 3/14/1921 | See Source »

...play is full of contrasts and tragic ironies that grow with reflection. The struggles of Raimunda to protect her daughter and the honor of her family; the useless resistance of Esteban to the "envious, evil mind" that is controlling his life; the guilty love of Acacia for her stepfather, concealed until the last moment under a mask of hate; and the remorseless jealously of the dead, that finally confounds sweet-heart and enemy in one final ruin-these are the elements that, under Benavente's touch, take life and from upon the stage. The slow movement of the tragedy affords...

Author: By B. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/12/1921 | See Source »

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