Word: topic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon Mr. Broun wired the news paper that he was "on strike" and ceased writing on any topic. Mr. Broun contended that "If I do not thumb my nose at the World's pet projects,"* he should be allowed freedom in his column. The World said No; said that in the reader's mind whatever he finds in a newspaper he credits to that Coolidge newspaper. says in "Did the you see World...
Members of the Rotary Club of Rapid City, S. Dak., took luncheon seats one day last week, waited expectantly for onetime Governor Samuel McKelvie of Nebraska to address them on the topic of the beauty of the Black Hills. But Mr. McKelvie gave no beauty talk. Instead, he assailed onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for telling farmers that such federal organizations as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Banks were examples of what the government might, if so inclined, do for farmers. Mr. McKelvie was grieved to think that Mr. Lowden had supposed that...
...McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
Legislation. After brisk debate, the convention indorsed the Child Labor Amendment to the U. S. Constitution?an amendment which thus far has been ratified by only five states of the 36 necessary for the amendment to become a law. The topic of "protective legislation" (restriction of women workers to an eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women...
...work Sunday morning bringing a partly finished bottle of whiskey. He greets his colleague, George Tiernan, nightman, with the suggestion that they "kill the quart" before Mr. Tiernan goes home. They are bosom friends and two hours pass pleasantly while they rehash what has been their favorite conversational topic since the Lihmes left town, namely, the stinginess of "The Old Swede's" (Mr. Lihme's) tips and the indisputable right, the incontrovertible necessity of two fine Irish elevator men to get an increase...