Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the mire of ridicule. With Mrs. Sanger's mouth plastered shut and the eminent Clarence Darrow calling upon the wise to look upon life "as a huge joke," the assembled intelligentsia amused themselves with the obscenity of Mother Goose. Unfortunately the Grand Vizir of Maryland Free State was kept away by a sinus infection. Accordingly he lost a rare addition to his distinguished Americana anthology...
...Crimson baseball forces will engage the University of Maine nine in the first home game of the season this afternoon at 4 o'clock on Soldiers Field. It will be the first game of the year for the Pine Tree State players, while the Crimson, fresh from its Southern trip, should be well prepared to meet the Northerners...
Inevitable were thoughts of the still-brewing public utility propaganda scandals. That public utility men had bribed and teachers accepted was made patent last year when the Federal Trade Commission, investigating public utilities, discovered the extent to which propaganda in behalf of private as against state ownership, control and operation of light, power and traction companies, had been slipped into public school texts and lectures by paid publicists and conniving teachers (TIME, July 16). The National Education Association shortly after appointed a committee of ten to uncover propaganda-spreading teachers and public utility bribers. The committee, headed by able...
...seat throne, where the Pope alone may sit. Facing the throne will be two chairs where high dignitaries will sit. Thus no one will sit beside the Pope and none, except, of course, the driver, will turn his back upon him when he drives through Roman streets. In such state rides no other monarch, not even Japan's "Son of Heaven" Emperor...
...Times is his creation. People mocked his motto, "All the news that's fit to print." They scoffed at his plan to cover fully phases of the news that had never been so covered before, such as Wall Street, real estate, books, routine governmental matters of the city, state and nation. At his refusal to accept the trend toward sensationalism, muckraking, funnies and "yellow" headlines, his contemporaries and competitors snorted...