Word: standings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from abandoning the stand we have taken against these unnecessary hardships endured by show horses, we, of the Anti-Cruelty Society, feel we have only just begun, and although it may be a long crusade, it will certainly not be a fainthearted...
...favor of the $400,000,000.00 reduction. Was this the opinion of the group or merely the opinion of six men who might have been prejudiced on the question? Assuming that all other Chambers of Commerce throughout the country cast their ballot in the same way, is the stand of the United States Chamber of Commerce the opinion from a "cross section of the country," or merely the opinion of a numerically insignificant few. Is not their claim misleading ? WALTER C. BAKER Member of C. of C. Niagara Falls, N. Y. For an account of how another U. S. Chamber...
...Farmer-Labor 1. With two Republican seats vacant pending investigation of their occupants-elect, and with the Farmer-Laborite and at least four Republicans calling themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior to the Senate's "organizing," asked the orthodox Republicans for assurance that this session...
...must die for his country!" In future, declared the French Foreign Office last week, all articles tending to incite antiFascists to assassinate Il Duce will be pitilessly suppressed in France. Since Signer Mussolini has tried for months if not years to coerce the French Government into taking .just this stand, his good humor last week was understandable. Said he, however, apropos of a possible treaty of friendship with France: "Such an undertaking . . . could not be based solely on literary and sentimental reasons but must rest on the elimination . . . of reason for friction between the two countries." In the past such...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...