Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transportation Act of 1920 specified that carriers could earn 6 per cent on the value of their property as fixed by the I. C. C. All profits above that figure were "recapturable"-half into the carriers' reserve fund, half to an I. C. C. fund for special loans to less profitable roads...
Louisiana has 39 State Senators. Twenty-six would be required for an impeachment conviction, 14 for acquittal. Just after the Long trial started last week in the Louisiana Senate, 15 Senators agreed that the proceedings were technically illegal and unconstitutional because the House had impeached Gov. Long at a special session unduly extended. Six of these Long Senators, despite their oath to serve as fair and impartial judges of his case, had sat on platforms from which Gov. Long was haranguing crowds in his own defense. With the opportunity of a full trial on the evidence thus excluded, the remaining...
...been reopened in the face of the union strike (TIME, April 15 et seg.). Their German managers demanded and received military protection from the State. Machine guns bristled on the plant roofs, manned by young Guardsmen, many of them students from the University of Tennessee. Some 800 militiamen and special deputies enforced what was, in effect, martial law through Happy Valley...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be with-held...
...reasons for giving course work less emphasis are both mechanical and psychological. Mechanically, as steps toward the mastery of a field, courses seem desirable either as introductory surveys to a general or to a special field, for the orientation of the student. But if one admits the desirability of working for understanding of a field, then courses other than these introductory surveys, seem a hindrance. Seniors, if they are not assumed to be robots, has best go their own gait, using lectures, books, and discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along...