Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States has up to the present, for better or for worse, refused to join the League. But it is significant that even in the biter days of 1920 the youth of the country as represented in the colleges and expressed in numerous straw-ballots, favored the ratification of the treaty and the covenant. It is significant also that now again the colleges are in the vanguard, pressing the issue before the country. Youthful sentimentality this may well be, but it is an undeniable tendency--a force to be reckoned with...
...accordance with its custom, the Cooperative society will give a straw hat free to each of the Crimson track men who won a first place in the Princeton meet Saturday. The six winners may obtain their hats by calling at the Cooperative any time today...
...vast trade possibilities in Russia, has sat patiently under repeated injuries, only sending occasional notes of dignified rebuke. A British civil engineer was executed in 1920, British fishermen have been molested and injured in the Baltic, British prestige has been undermined abroad by propaganda. But the straw which has broken the camel's back is the insolence with which British protests over the Church trials and executions have been received, an insolence "unexampled in the case of Governments affecting to be on friendly terms...
...Kresge: "I applied for $5,000,000 life insurance and am asking that the commission of $150,000 go to a friend of mine. The only other $5,000,000 policy in this country is carried by Adolph Zukor, cinema potentate." President Harding: "I received three brand new straw hats from the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers of America-a rough Sennit straw for daytime wear, a leghorn for motoring and golfing, and a smooth straw for evening wear." Lady Astor: "I introduced a bill into the House of Commons to prohibit the sale of intoxicants...
...Voluminous communications were sent to the Daily News, supporting and opposing the status quo on all of the issues under the head of "paternalism", including compulsory Chapel attendance, required courses, and the limitation of cuts. Discussion of the problems became so rife that finally the Daily News held a straw vote among the Faculty and students...