Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...electorate. Italian voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...
...been suggested that the slow rate of payment this year is a result of lack of understanding on the part of the Freshmen and Sophmore classes of the purposes and advantages of the Budget system. This information is printed on the pledge cards which were included in all registration envelopes. The list of beneficiaries of the Budget and the itemized plan of proposed expenditure of the money collected are also printed on these cards...
During the two years since its inception at Harvard, the Budget system, requiring a total quota of $12,000 to cover its expenditures, has clearly demonstrated its superiority over former methods. Hitherto, the quota has already been more than half collected at the conclusion of the registration period. The remainder is usually added by the last of November. Checks are made payable to the Student Council and should be sent this year, to Phillips Brooks House...
...would be a rash man who would state that we are finally entering the industrial millennium, but there is a great ray of hope that America is finding herself on the road to a solution of the greatest of all her problems. That problem is to adjust our economic system to our racial ideals...
Philadelphians had the right to be downright vexed last week. For a month the transcontinental bus system projected last summer (TIME, June 4) and now named Yelloway-Pioneer System had been operating between Los Angeles and Philadelphia. But the country was told very little of the accomplishment. Last week the bus system was extended to Manhattan, 3,433 highway miles from Los Angeles, and there was much to do. A Mrs. C. A. Jondro of Los Angeles, one of the four persons who made the whole journey (in 5 days, 14 hours), declared the ride more comfortable than by train...