Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Washington was made public for the first time the report for 1922 of Governor General Wood of the Philippines. There were promising signs for the future in a satisfactory increase of the school population, more economy in Government, prosecution of those who all but wrecked the Philippine National Bank...
Of President Coolidge the Call said: " President Harding is succeeded by Vice President Coolidge, a narrow-minded, provincial reactionary, to whom social progress is an occasion for alarm and a new idea is an offense requiring stern rebuke. His accession to the presidency is an affliction which we must endure...
The agitation over faked sculpture has stimulated a movement to forbid the departure of any art work from France unless the sale is approved by the Ministry of Fine Arts and a group of connoisseurs. Roman gate ways, ancient mantelpieces, church sculpture from provincial towns have been avidly bought up...
The Swedish Diet approved a bill to allow women to enter the public services on the same footing as men, with the exception of the fighting services, the Church, presiding judgeships in the highest provincial courts.
It was reported that the decision was made necessary by the growing unpopularity of the Moscow Soviet with the Soviets of the provinces. Other reports, less convincing, state that the Moscow Government intends to make radical changes in the Soviet constitution in order to diminish the power of the provincial...