Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours and three quarters and enthusiastic audience that filled the Living Room in the Union last night, Mr. William J. Burns told story after story about his career that made Sherlock Holmes place in comparison, and concluded by launching a tirade against the sinister doings and the propaganda spread by the Soviet Government. "What I wan to do," said Mr. Burns at the beginning of his talk, "is to point out the fact of the futility of the crook ever getting away with it, and to show that there is nothing to the detective business except the same common-sense...
...spoke of the world-wide movement of the Soviet government to spread propaganda and sow discord. "There never was a time in the history of this country when there was so much need for red-blooded Americanism. The Soviet government is responsible for the Wall Street bomb, and they paid, for that. And if I had my way about it, I'd index every alien in this country; and for those who are seeking, to overthrow the country, I'd drive them out and send them back where they belong". In speaking of the younger generation, Mr. Burns said...
...meeting held by representatives of the Yale News, the Daily Princetonian, and the Crimson on Saturday, March 18, the following common editorial policy was decided upon. The steps advocated are designed to correct the present overemphasis now placed upon football, which to a certain extent has spread to other sports as well. It is important to note that this conference between the papers was planned before the fact of tomorrow's conference between the colleges was known. Following is the platform which, the three papers feel will help to remedy the situation...
...favor a further reduction of the standing army to 115,000 men and 11,000 officers,--this in the name of "necessary economizing". Under the plan now in operation the army is already being reduced to 150,000 men and 13,000 officers, and that makes its necessary to spread the effectives pretty thin to cover the various posts. Coast defense units are everywhere being pared to the quick, and even at that all but the more important fortifications are being abandoned. Our contingent in Germany is being withdrawn. In the Philippines, in Hawaii, at Panama, barely enough...
...under government auspices, whereas in China there are several, and in some even co-education is practiced in a land where less than two decades ago there was no provision for the education of women under Chinese auspices at all, and this co-education of today, while not wide spread, is extended in places even to courses in medicine, as for instance, at the medical school of the Rockefeller Foundation in Peking...