Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps you cannot agree with my viewpoint, but I think those printers who are not members of the union are unfair to themselves in not taking advantage of the benefits, such as the old age pension and eligibility to enter the Printers Home, which that organization has to offer. It is certain that a member of the International Typographical Union will not have to go to a judge in a criminal court and ask to be confined in prison so he will have a place to eat and sleep, as one printer recently did in Brooklyn...
...such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie, from wealth and from social distinction. But one must credit Mrs. Catt with having gone the furthest as a leader of women as women. Despite her advancing age, she is most likely to be named when an oldtime suffragist is asked, "What woman could be President...
Wary, Japanese men have for centuries not infrequently refused to marry "Hinuma girls." Despondent, such maidens often commit suicide if they remain unmarried until 20 years of age- the traditional limit after which irredeemable spinsterhood sets...
...picturesque rebirth. The colleges, he asserts "heap knowledge upon a student like hay" and then say "stack it yourself." This complaint is nothing but the platitude, dear to all educational declaimers, that method is more essential than fact, reason than memory. Still admitting the great age of this truism, one cannot but be glad of an occasional restatement to refresh an ideal...
...report sidestepped this dangerous issue quite neatly. It contented itself with rebuking all disputants in general for intolerance, evil-speaking, misjudgments and unwarranted publication of slanders. It transferred the responsibility for unrest in the Presbyterian Church to well-known causes such as the War, modern science, the mechanical age and lack of home training. It reaffirmed belief in the virgin birth of Christ and other Fundamentalist tenets but held "that the Presbyterian system admits of diversity of view when the core of truth is identical." It asked for the commission's continuance for another year to study the constitutional questions...