Word: tioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention our courageous Jew, Charles A. Levine. Like the rest of the prejudiced press you have devoted columns and columns to Lindbergh, Byrd, Chamberlin and other Nordic flyers. To Levine you have grudged even the iotas of space required by sheer force of his importance. This looks like discrimina tion to me. Is this discrimination? I think it is! Mr. Levine has fled the unfairness of the newspapers of our country. It has been an added discouragement in the face of already drastic odds against tricky Frenchmen who will not honor a contract and hold to it after signing. Then...
Meanwhile, Irish societies in the District of Columbia began a na tion-wide campaign to have such cinemas removed from theatres. The Maryland convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians adopted two resolutions: 1) to condemn cinemas belittling the Irish; 2) to oppose the entry of the U. S. into the World Court...
...Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, long an insurgent, exclaimed, "We will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state...
...college education was to prepare the student to fit into society as an essential part of the social structure in which he lives, President Hibben showed that Harvard and Princeton were working along parallel lines to produce a body of young men who have "learned to think for themselves," tion in conduct...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...