Word: reopening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Children in Passaic picketed the schools to prevent their classmates from going to class. "No school today," said their banners. From their guarded offices, mill-owners announced that the mills would reopen immediately, that strikers who wanted to go back to work would be given police-protection day and night. Droves of police stood ready...
...Germany intends to reopen the war guilt discussion as the "New York Times" reports, the Assembly of the League of Nations will listen to much strong talk. France may take the dignified position that the question was settled long ago and can not be brought up again. In that event, the German legal barrage would break down before the first and strongest line of defense...
...Mellon announced that he felt he must take action on the memorandum. Mr. Couzens had made his tax return on Mar. 13, 1920. The Treasury has just five years to reopen such cases, unless the taxpayer waives his right in this respect. The other minority stockholders had signed such waivers. Mr. Couzens was asked to sign one until the Treasury had time to investigate the charges in the memorandum. Instead, he appeared on the floor of the Senate, read the memorandum, denounced it as persecution and declared he would sign no waiver. The Treasury, with only a few hours...
...under the most favored nation clause whatever privileges Germany may extend to France she will automatically extend to the United Kingdom. It also means an end of discrimination against the Germans in Britain, for they will, under the Treaty, be allowed to deal in non-ferrous metals, to reopen banks, to serve in the merchant marine on the same terms as other aliens. Moreover, fishing rights have been made reciprocal. Apart from its significance, the raison d'etre of the Treaty was the expiration on Jan. 10 of the trade protective clauses of the Versailles Treaty...
Coming back to town from the quiet of Vermont hills is trial enough, without writing about town authors. Therefore, I am choosing one of the Vermont group with which to reopen my column after an ever-so-slight vacation. Sara Cleghorn has been lecturing at the School of English, Bread Loaf Inn, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt. She is poet, novelist, essayist. Those of you who read The Atlantic Monthly know her work well. I had always heard of her as one of the group of writers who live near or in Manchester, Vt.?a friend of Dorothy Canfield Fisher...