Word: stately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week to whip up the 20,000.000 votes necessary to pass the "Liberty Law" over the Reichstag's rejection. Manifesto. Opponents of the "Liberty Law" were not silent last week. While Hugenberg followers paraded and shouted hoarsely on street corners, both the German Reich and the Prussian State Government issued warnings that any official who actively supported the Hugenberg referendum was liable to instant dismissal. Arresting was an "Intellectual Manifesto" posted in prominent places throughout Germany, published in all but Hugenberg newspapers. Over...
...Sacco-Vanzetti matter not long ago, and he with a lot of other theoretical high brows, Heywood Broun, for instance, always wanting some Red or Pink communist to be allowed to run loose, defame the government. . . . I cannot understand a man born and raised in a New England state like Vermont where there are no such things as radicals and Pinks and long haired agitators, upholding this sort of thing and I have no patience with such things. I was glad when even the N. Y. World, I think it was, threw Heywood Broun out of its writing staff...
Judge Barnhill sentenced Beal and the three other northern defendants to serve from 17 to 20 years in State's Prison. The Southerners, considered less culpable, received smaller terms. The defense planned an appeal...
...Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility...
...from 1899 to 1902, General Hertzog only occasionally succumbs to his native Dutch caution, as he did last week upon contemplating the spectacle of stolid South African farmers hastening to buy U. S. motor cars on credit.* "The disease of purchasing motor cars," said he before the Orange Free State Nationalist Congress, "is a real menace to the welfare of the Union. The purchase of a car on credit has become the greatest danger to the Union. There is nothing today which so seriously threatens ruination for farmers as the motor car evil. "When a car is bought on credit...