Word: restrictive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last analysis, it amounts to a problem in definition. What is an "artist"? The Labor Department holds that "a professional musician is properly regarded as a professional artist for the purpose of exemption." The Union would restrict the term "artist" to "one who is adept, has attained great knowledge and skill in the fine art known as music and who, as a vocation, practices that art for the advancement and welfare of mankind" (Paderewski, Kreisler, Ysaye, Toscanini...
...deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting to get a standard eight-hour day, but it is the eight-hour day for women that the Woman's Party is vigorously opposing...
Last week, according to the Berliner Tageblatt, the Soviet Government, perhaps intending to vex Great Britain, agreed to restrict manganese mining at Nikopol, to take only $1.50 a ton for Harriman-mined manganese, and to waive its demand for renovating the Tiflis-Poti railroad. Those modifications made Promoter Harriman virtual overlord of Soviet manganese production...
There are several grounds, common-place enough in the talk of the day, why these fellowships are so highly prized and why not only educators but publicists also praise them so highly. They illustrate the vision that the brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system...
...Remedy. The Seminole Pool in Oklahoma produces 350,000 barrels of oil daily. It is a new oil district and is chiefly responsible for the present overproduction. If the Seminole wells could be shut off for a few days or if each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...