Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper that accomplished the scoop was the Macon, Ga., daily Telegraph, in its special Annual Jester Edition, written by students of Wesleyan College. The editor of the Richmond Christian Advocate had read the Jester Edition and stupidly believed every word...
...General Education Board keeps an eagle eye for deserving universities, colleges, schools. It gives them, not buildings or grounds, but endowments for higher faculty salaries, new chairs, departments, special lines of research. It has also aided the public schools in the rural sections of the South...
...special meeting of the? stockholders of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana . . . to express themselves in regard to your suggested resignation. If this plan is to be followed, I have no doubt hat you will have the thirty-day call issued at once and that you will wish to write me that this has been done."?Stockholder Rockefeller to Board Chairman Stewart, April...
Antagonism to the "chain" has already shown itself in four states. North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia legislatures ordered special taxes on chain stores. In Maryland, a law was passed forbidding anyone to own more than five stores in the county of Cumberland. Although North Carolina and Maryland courts have declared their laws unconstitutional, although South Carolina has made no attempt to enforce hers, although Georgia courts have granted a temporary injunction restraining enforcement-the passage of such laws has caused chain store operators to stir themselves defensively...
...young as it is, the mere fact of special limitation was bound to cause the abandonment of the strict democratic precepts as soon as the mass of the population realized their opportunities and began to take advantage of them in large numbers. Already, while this stage is still incomplete, restrictions are steadily becoming more stringent. The standards are no longer those of wealth and family, and aim, rather unsurely as yet, towards other based on the mental and moral qualities of the individual, but nevertheless education in the colleges at least, is no longer for all. An aristocracy is again...