Word: sections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ralph Clinton Holmes of the Texas Co. put it, "if by chance we are held to be acting in restraint of trade, leave it to the courts to determine whether such restraint is in the public interest or not." But the Hoover administration recalled this clause in the final section of Article 1 of the Constitution: "No state shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological Survey, to see the governors of "three...
...better than my version, they will put this aside and perform Boris from the original score." The Rimsky version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced on the Soviet stage. Last week this edition was brought out by the Oxford University Press...
...short period not only is backed up by a growing precedent, but it would appear to have several decided points in its favor. Occupancy of the Assistant Dean's office by a successive series of men fresh from their own undergraduate life insures youthful tone to a section of University Hall all too likely under ordinary circumstances to become a formidable monster in the eyes of some students. The transitory aspect of the appointment also enables graduates in doubt between academic or nonacademic careers to pause on the threshold a moment before plunging one way or the other...
...cheap, unorganized white labor in the South, abundant water power, lenient mill laws (the 72-hour week, night work for women and children), special tax exemptions, proximity to the textile industry's raw material, King Cotton. Mill after mill closed in New England to reopen in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. The labor was new, but the proprietors were mostly the same...
...information. Its Imperial Airways started weekly commercial service from Croydon Airport, near London, to Karachi, India, by way of Alexandria, Egypt. First passenger was Sir Samuel Hoare, British Air Minister, one of the few bureaucrats who actually fly.* He quit the India journey at Alexandria, to inspect the Egyptian section of the proposed Alexandria-Cape Town British trunk airway...