Word: tioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every schoolboy's father is conscious of the peculiar individ uality of the transmontane commonwealth. Wherefore, a joint resolu tion has been introduced into the West Virginia Legislature to change its name to Kanawha. "We need a distinctive name," editorialized one time (1911-17) U. S. Senator Chilton in the Charleston (W. Va.) Gazette. "Then the dumbbells would have to learn it as they have learned Oklahoma. . . . Who is not tired of explaining to the morons that Wheeling is not on the James River...
Chicago University had been voted first in Botany, Geography, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Sociology: second place in Astronomy, Educa- tion, French, Government, Spanish. Columbia University had won Edu- cation, Psychology, Zoology; second place in Botany, Economics, English, Philosophy, Sociology; tied for second with Yale in Geology...
...that are heaped upon the incumbent. He believes that the life service tradition should be held inviolable but that men are liable to break, or to be driven from office. This condition, if it were obtained, would cause the kind of man which the office demands to avoid it, tion, it assumes a super...
...peppy" and interesting, thus giving a busy "T student the news of the day in a pleasant I way, without long hours of "combing articles." Besides getting bits of useful information, not to be found in other magazines, for history class, I have used material from your publica- tion as a basis for almost every oral and written theme I have been called on for this year...
...divorce completely the Board and the Corporation. "Let the Board confine itself to its regulative duties," he said. "Let it lay down general policies, but place the entire business of operating the Government fleet, of carrying out the assigned policy, entirely in the hands of the Corpora-tion." The argument for this arrangement is that the Board is not the kind of organization efficiently to operate a large business. Its seven members are by law chosen geographically to represent all parts of the country. Advocates of separation assert that the Board is political, whereas the operation should be placed entirely...