Word: scopes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Hoover picks the members of the now authorized Federal Farm Board, there will come into existence an agency for agriculture comparable in scope and authority with the Interstate Commerce. Commission for transportation, the Federal Reserve Board for finance...
...cursory glance at this year's curriculum shows that the scope of the summer courses has again increased over previous years, particularly in the field of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although the courses in Education have been growing with the rest, the trend is far less pronounced in this than in the field of general academic studies, and particularly the humanities. The school begins on Monday, July 8, and closes on Friday, August 17. Except in language courses, which are an hour and a half long, instruction will be for a period of an hour...
Generous donations of books, pamphlets and manuscripts continue to pour in and these are appreciated as increasing the scope of the collection, but on the other hand they require an augmented staff and cannot remove the necessity for selectively directed purchases. Partial relief in this direction has opportunely appeared through the generosity of the anonymous donor of the $100,000 Florence T. Baker Fund. The income from this Fund is available for the purchase of books and other printed material...
...Drys, Consolidated, particularly the Anti-Saloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, were carefully watched to see if the President's broadening of the commission's scope would cause them to protest that their special handi work was not receiving its proper share of attention. But no protest came from the Drys, who viewed the commission as an agency that must inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly...
...Washington, the agitation for a Senate investigation of textile labor troubles began to bear fruit. North Carolina's Senator Simmons withdrew his objections to a resolution by Montana's Senator Wheeler, when the scope of the inquiry was broadened to take in the whole U. S. instead of a few Southern States...