Word: war
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of a pamphlet recently issued by that university, containing several significant ideas on the trend of democracy in modern education. It is Dr. Meiklejohn's belief that the big issue which remains particularly untouched by those colleges not experimenting on hold lines, is that of the war going on within the college between what he calls the democracy and the aristocracy. His two factions are not divided into groups of social standing, but rather of intellectual status. A constant pitched battle is going on behind the doors of a handred University Halls between those who think of education...
...from a new angle--not with the old words concerning common heritage and future, and the friendship of the Anglo-Saxo, race-facts, which if they be true at all are too true to need repeating--but with a dire prediction of the consequences should America engage in a war with England. That it would be a large, expensive, and spectacular war goes without saying; Mr. Tomlinson, however, predicts a complete world breakdown as an inevitable result, a breakdown which would leave the United States with no market for its commerce, and hence with a barren and fatal victory...
Messrs. Arthur Brisbane and William Randolph Hearst, who long have danced up and down the columns wearing the leering mask of the British war lord and the awful face of the Japanese warrior-samurai, have stopped scaring the children with stories of the air fleets to pass in the night. With several heartfelt sighs of relief King George and the Mikado learn that William Randolph and all the little pitch pipes in the great Hearst organ are now braying towards Mexico...
...Reparations Commission has been alarmed to learn that the Reichstag plans for next year a series of great industrial expenditures. Although the large profits of the new German rail-road system under governmental control have been instrumental in the payment on time of the war debts of 1925, 1926, and 1927, the Allies, as represented in the Reparations Commission are trying to discourage any additional investments by the Republic. The annual payments for the first four years increased only from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 marks, while the payment for the fifth year and all subsequent years...
...Price Glory?", the present attraction at the University Theatre for the whole week, has, of course been discussed before. Inevitably it is linked and compared with "The Big Parade," and many a movie fan has argued the side of one or the other as the greatest picture of the war ever produced...