Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tradition. That is my first reason for going as I do when I can to our mother country. It is inspiring to see the roots from which our own great culture has sprung and ennobles our idea of what we should be. If I could change England at all I should pray that she recognize a little more the really splendid cultivation of Americans and not be, as Englishmen are inclined to, so patronizing towards "barbarous" Americans. Your question ought really to be turned around. Why don't Englishmen visit America? Enough of us go abroad...
Police last week extracted from Thomas J. Callegy, Manhattan Negro Post Office porter who last fortnight "discovered" a harmless-hissing "bomb" addressed to New York's Governor Roosevelt, a confession that he (Callegy) had made and sent it himself. Reason: his $1,600-per-year postal job was monotonous, not lucrative. He thought if he did something "heroic" he would be promoted. Would-be-hero Callegy was hospitalized for mental observation...
...news cameramen who flashlighted the family group. Later, Heflin Senior issued his customary statement: his son's tippling was a Roman Catholic plot. Alone of U. S. news channels, the Associated Press closed its wires to the Junior Heflin story. A. P. Manager Kent Cooper's reason: Young Heflin is not nationally notable, was not arrested, hurt nobody...
...excluded. Smart, the sons of Nippon are not making that mistake again in Brazil. A sheaf of figures just released at Rio de Janeiro shows that only 11,231 Japanese immigrated last year-and they were not little yellowfolk but big, brown, burly. The Imperial Japanese Government knows the reason-is the reason-why strapping Japanese exclusively are entering Brazil in a slow but sure procession. "It is considered," reads a suave semi-official bulletin from the Home Office at Tokyo, "that great injustice would be done to nations requiring Japanese laborers if permits to emigrate were issued to palefaced...
...Sophomore study cards at C University Hall before 5 o'clock Wednesday. Study cards must be signed by both the faculty advisor and a professor in the department in which the student is concentrating. Failure to make an appointment with these within the last week will not be sufficient reason to grant an extension of time. A fine of $5 is imposed upon every student not having his cards in on time...