Word: restorationism
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¶ Passed a bill for the restoration of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, the birthplace of the Star Spangled Ban ner. (Went to Senate.)
It must seem to some observers that the present cudgeling over the question of cheer leading rests less upon an absolute opposition than upon a failure to separate the various issues involved. One batallion urges the retention of the present system, in the name of "indifference"; its opponents urge the...
Perversely the serpent censorship refuses to die. The Puritans revived it and brought on as a result the reaction of an unrestrained Restoration era. Even today the abortive principle occasionally raises its ugly head. Fortunately the very absurdity of the events and comments it drags in its wake are enough...
In its zeal for safe-guarding the rights of property, the American Legal Association surely intends to work for the restoration of alien property confiscated in wartime. In nineteen seventeen the state department asserted that it "would not take advantage of a state of war to take possession of property...
It is now six years since hostilities ceased; yet no steps have been taken to restore these factories and lands to their original owners. Peace has been established, but the American public and its political agents, usually so scrupulous of property rights, have entirely neglected to remedy this abuse of...