Word: wide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan has a group of smoked fish men. Last year their sales totaled $12,000,000. This week they are defending themselves against charges of monopoly. State Attorney General Albert Ottinger filed those charges last week. He finds these wide ranges between their costs and charges, objects...
...report went far and wide through the press. Mr. Smith Wildman Brookhart, newly nominated for the Senate in Iowa (TIME, June 14), had made a speech to the Iowa Federation of Labor at Mason City. He was reported as having advocated...
...granted 10% of the revenue of the Mosul oil fields for 25 years. 2) Turkey to be empowered to sell these revenue interests. 3) Mutual security among the contracting parties to be fostered by mutual suppression of marauding bands and the maintenance of a demilitarized zone 75 kilometers wide on each side of the Turko-Irak frontier. 4) Amnesty for all inhabitants of Mosul-including 350,000 Nestorians, Chaldeans, Melchites...
Plans for a nation-wide Harvard meeting of every Harvard Club in its own city on Armistice Day, 1926, were suggested by Allston Burr '89, chairman of the Harvard War Memorial Committee, to the Chicago meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs. The Chicago club, through its president. John S. Miller, immediately approved the suggestion, and other clubs are following suit. At this nation-wide meeting reports will be made of the contribution of the membership of each club toward the Memorial Church fund, and it is anticipated that the money may be raised in time to make a full...
...value of extended military training are, to say the least, ingenious and bold. You hint that the new naval course "can help toward making such (military) science the accessory of the average citizen and thus militate against the further development of real jingoists." A scholarly idea, suggestive of a wide historical background! Undoubtedly you remember that this very idea of training the whole nation was followed most thoroughly before the war by Germany. Can you, by any stretch of memory, recall if there was not the slightest tendency toward jingoism in that nation? If the representative nobles, commonly known here...