Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is a secret? Representative John Nance Garner, Democrat, of Texas, declared that nothing was a secret which was printed in The New York Times, the Chicago Daily Tribune and The New York Commercial. Therefore he objected that the text of Secretary Mellon's bill for tax reduction was kept "secret" by the Ways and Means Committee...
...ends of tradition from the three centuries of Harvard's existence. The book is based on a lifetime of original research in leisure moments among contemporary records, and official documents, and, on personal experiences in recent years. It contains fifty illustrations as interesting and little-known as the text...
...Ledger published a despatch dated "Hongkong, Nov. 29", which began: "When news was received of the election of Marshal Tsao Kun as President of China, a meeting of Dr. Sun's Cabinet was held in Canton." Thereupon followed the text of a proclamation issued...
...respect this handy book for debaters has a definite value--it is modern. It is extremely discouraging to pick up such a text book, only to find that the passages quoted as examples are from speeches and writings of the middle of the last century and long ago forgotten. The ardor of the most interested young student is smothered if he is asked to paw over a dry and dusty question brought many years ago to a decision or a working compromise...
...written. The author, interested perhaps more in debating as a means of teaching younger students to think logically upon contemporary problems, has neglected the recent developments in the art itself. The principles he outlines are those which might be found, often at greater length to be sure, in any text book of the subject. Nevertheless the volume should find a place in school libraries, not so much as the text book which it purports to be, but rather as a guide to the selection of a subject and to the methods of getting at material...