Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obtained Nebraska as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Scouts Lewis, Clark, Pike, Fremont explored it. By early pioneers it was called a "great desert entirely unfit for agriculture." Across it were laid the Oregon trail, the Mormon trail to Utah, the "Pony Express" route, the Union Pacific Railroad. The Diamond Jubilee celebrated not Nebraska's 75th year as a State, but its 75th as a political unit. In 1854, by the "Kansas-Nebraska Bill" it became a territory, was permitted to decide its slavery status by "squatter sovereignty" (vote of the settlers). It sent troops...
Famed Nebraskans past, present and sometime: the Bryan Brothers (William Jennings, Charles Wayland), U. S. Senator George William Norris, Union Pacific R. R. President Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard...
...next meeting of Phi Beta Kappa will be the annual winter banquet, to be given in the Faculty Room of the Union on Tuesday, November 26. The chapter extends its special invitation to Phi Beta Kappa members from other colleges to come to the meeting. Keys and certificates will be presented to the new members before the banquet...
...report is soon to be published by the Bureau at the University Press, entitled "International Protection of Industrial Property", the work of S. P. Ladas, secretary of the Bureau. This study deals with the work of the Union for Protection of Industrial Property constituted in 1883 and including today 38 countries...
...draw your attention to the fact that a committee exists which aims at performing just that function and moreover provides the books it recommends. The Library Committee of the Harvard Union meets every month and makes a selection from, the current literature of every kind and the books selected are added to the library. The constitution of the committee, which is representative of the Faculty, the Tutors, and the Undergraduates, ensures a catholicity of taste, and the aim of the committee has always been to meet the needs of the present generation of students, as well as to assemble...