Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judgment. The Pittsburgh Coal Co.'s charge that the investigating Senators were "prejudiced" was not unnatural. Between the senators' attitudes toward miners and operators, there was a marked difference betraying sympathy for the underdogs, suspicion for the upperdogs, and shock at the general horridness of what they saw in the coal fields. Inevitably mixed with these emotions was senatorial self-importance and a consciousness that politically the investigation was a cynosure. Senator Gooding, who, as junior senator from Idaho, is thoroughly eclipsed most of the time by his ursine colleague, Senator Borah, was moved to speak forth like...
...Hill, the last negative speaker, showed the harshness of southern states toward the negro. In Alabama the penalty for "intermarriage or intermixture" is imprisonment for from two to seven years. "And the affirmative maintains that intermixing is desirable, when a lynching awaits such a marriage!" he said. "According to the constitutions of five southern states, a man with one-eighth negro blood is a negro...
...subjects of the separate lectures are "Man's Experience of God", April 23: "The Christian Experience of God", April 27; "The Idea of God in Christian Theology", April 30; "The Changing Background of Religious Thought", May 4; "A Transcendent God and an Evolving World", May 7; and "Suggestions toward a Modern Christian Theism...
...London a conference was in progress, last week, between Governor of the Bank of France Émile Moreau and Governor of the Bank of England Montagu Norman. They were reported to be entertaining favorably proposals made at Paris by M. Titulescu which look toward the stabilization of the Rumanian leu by an international loan...
...University Glee Club is now directing its energies toward the production of "King David" in Symphony Hall, Sunday afternoon, April 1. The performance will be for the benefit of the Pension Fund...