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...they would ever have dreamed of trying to foist off on their patrons in the name of melodrama. So the role of honor might be extended indefinitely. Those on it perfected a technique of cold blodded exploitation and ruthless betrayal of trusts which would make Captain Kidd and the Brotherhood look like second rate pikers. Some at least have met their due, and the only bright spot in the picture is that it's a rare prison of the better class that hasn't its Bankers' Row these days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROLL OF HONOR | 1/4/1934 | See Source »

...adult education went 227,500 Carnegie dollars, of which it spent $750 on Southern Mountain whites and $5,000 on the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Carnegie Manna | 12/18/1933 | See Source »

...other are varieties, is, according to Mr. Fruchs, the exploitation of man by man. His book is an attempt to trace its course, from its earliest appearance in primitive society, to a communistic Utopia somewhere in the distant future, in which all exploitation shall have ceased and the universal brotherhood of man shall have been accomplished. In the course of this discussion Mr. Fruchs finds occasion to inveigh against such specific evils as the over-emphasis of athletics, the philosophies of Plato and Nietzsche, the plight of the Nottingham weavers at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and the place...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 11/27/1933 | See Source »

This brings us, as Castor might remark, to another of the champions who have recommended universal strike as a deterrent to the military. Professor Einstein, speaking at London's Alfred Hall, mentioned many things, among them the necessity for international brotherhood, but nary a word of strike. For only last month the Professor, asked by Belgian friends whether the Nazis would menace Belgium, advised them to leave their university and join the army. This shift in position was loudly applauded by the Hearst editorial writers as a sensible adjustment to circumstance; none the less, the Professor would like to have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 10/5/1933 | See Source »

...tribute. The monarch summoned the best architects available, chose a site, subdivided and staked it in the fashion of real-estate visionaries throughout the ages. Had this been the conclusion of the tale Alexander the Great would have taken his place beside Nephew Napoleon and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers as judge of the value of terra firma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/29/1933 | See Source »

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