Word: thereto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Electors; the names of all persons, firms or corporations contributing to the said candidate or candidates or their party commitee or committees, or any other agency; the amounts contributed, pledged, loaned or otherwise made available for use, the method of expenditures thereof, but, as to the facts in relation thereto not only as to the subscriptions of money and the expenditures therefor, but as to use of any means of influence, including the promise of patronage, and all other facts in relation thereto that would not only be of public interest but would aid the Congress in any necessary remedial...
...state of affairs may have a devitalizing effect on the liberal arts by driving sensitive men into science and economics courses which have not yet become fashionable for women, is obvious. Many minds for which literature and allied subjects have at first only a slight appeal, are later, drawn thereto, after preliminary examination, with compelling force and all these potential adherents are repelled at the outset, the loss to the beaux arts is quite apparent...
...instruction are all included in the curriculum. Four courses, Basic, Red, White and Blue Courses, will be given. The Basic Course requires no previous military training and provides all preliminary instruction. Applicants for the Red Course must be graduates of the Basic Course, or have had military training equivalent thereto. This course provides training in different branches of the Army infantry, Field Artillery, Coast Artillery, Corps of Engineers, Cavalry and Signal Corps. The White Course offers more advance training for graduates of the Red Course...
...robberies, assaults, and even murders were things of every day occurrence. Strikes not only of a local but also a general character, such as involved the nation's railroads and telegraph system, were so numerous that to pick up an Italian newspaper and miss a front page heading prelating thereto would be an unusual surprise. Graft existed in all departments of the government, and burdensome taxes were imposed in order to supply wages for thousands of government employees, whose work was to devise new methods of increasing their personal property. Even the soldier who had faced several years of hell...
...Hamilton Foley has incorporated ex-President Woodrow Wilson's speeches in defence of the League of Nations into one small, neat volume.* He has, moreover, added thereto Mr. Wilson's address to the representatives of those nations assembled in Paris to impose peace terms upon those nations vanquished in the World War; a number of criticisms of the League from the now Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Taft, ex-Secretary of State Elihu Root. These latter, the editor of this book asserts, are " not generally known to students and to critics of the Covenant of the League of Nations...