North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 221University of Northern Iowa, 1925 |
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... continue until every man and every woman knows his place in event of trouble . We have the 5-5-3 ratio naval agreement , which three years after the event is as much of a mystery to most people as Defense Day is . Women owe it to ...
... continue until every man and every woman knows his place in event of trouble . We have the 5-5-3 ratio naval agreement , which three years after the event is as much of a mystery to most people as Defense Day is . Women owe it to ...
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... continue in the Electoral College ! Why should 166,187 Georgia voters have 14 votes in the Elec- toral College while 167,114 voters of Montana have only 4 , or 198,379 voters of North Dakota have only 5 ? Last November 111,463 voted in ...
... continue in the Electoral College ! Why should 166,187 Georgia voters have 14 votes in the Elec- toral College while 167,114 voters of Montana have only 4 , or 198,379 voters of North Dakota have only 5 ? Last November 111,463 voted in ...
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... continue to flourish and grow ; that it will stand against the formation of a political party analogous to the British Labour Party , in which the trade unions are subordinated to a small class of professional intellec- tuals ; that it ...
... continue to flourish and grow ; that it will stand against the formation of a political party analogous to the British Labour Party , in which the trade unions are subordinated to a small class of professional intellec- tuals ; that it ...
Page 417
... continue , as it has been during the last three or four years , a divided party , neither wing of which has rendered consistent allegiance to its elected leader . It remains to be seen whether the President will ally himself with one or ...
... continue , as it has been during the last three or four years , a divided party , neither wing of which has rendered consistent allegiance to its elected leader . It remains to be seen whether the President will ally himself with one or ...
Page 419
... continue their efforts . Let those beware who read in the re- election of the President a rebuke to the Western Conservatives , an endorsement of inaction on their part , or an acceptance of the status quo by agriculture . The ...
... continue their efforts . Let those beware who read in the re- election of the President a rebuke to the Western Conservatives , an endorsement of inaction on their part , or an acceptance of the status quo by agriculture . The ...
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Page 636 - ... presence, aid or instigation is guilty of a felony and punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of not more than $5,000.00 or both.
Page 385 - Then, I believe, we need add no more : if he knows himself, he will consider it as the most perfect punishment, that he is known to the world. Chas. Surf. If they talk this way to Honesty, what will they say to me, by and by ? [Aside.
Page 495 - Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned. She should have been a man — a great navigator,
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Page 594 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.