Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great flea in this case is the Bootleg Industry, which preys on Lax Citizens. The smaller flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
Aroused because some newspapers printed accounts of an executive (secret) session of the Senate, Senator Reed of Pennsylvania proposed a resolution to exclude from the Senate press gallery the representatives of any paper doing such a thing...
...first thing that the new Junto did was to invite President Alessandri to return from a tour of Italy. The President refused to return until "assured" that he and his policies were wanted. The Junto discussed certain demands made by the President and, after protracted and heated debate lasting far into the morning, decided to assure the President that he was not only desired but badly needed to take over the country's government...
...citizens of Valdosta, those gentlemen who compose the Chamber of Commerce, met totgether, issued, presently a manifesto. They called upon their fellow citizens for funds to establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said the citizens of Valdosta, considering the plan. "It is just that this lonely man should at last thus come to honor in Valdosta." Nor were the citizens...
Roscoe Pound's decision not to accent the Presidency of Wisconsin University but to remain at Harvard as Dean of the Law School is a decision which will be gratifying to Harvard men. It should please many other people. For it is always a pleasant thing to see a man refuse more money and higher rank because he knows that he has already found a job worth doing. And beyond that, Dean Pound's decision cannot fail to add prestige to the profession of the teacher...