Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have personally known the Senator since 1904. He is sincere, capable, honorable, temperate, a fine citizen and the greatest man to sit in the U. S. Senate since the Civil War. Were Lincoln alive today he would proudly approve Mr. Borah's candidacy, in my opinion...
...latter squares with the former. . . . Every presumption is to be indulged in favor of faithful compliance by Congress with the mandates of the fundamental law. Courts are reluctant to adjudge any statute in contravention of them. But, under our frame of Government, no other place is provided where the citizen may be heard to urge that the law fails to conform to the limits set upon the use of a granted power...
Time came to transport the thousands of record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...
...feels, moreover, that governmental education should be within the grasp of all. "There should be," he says, "a course of public finance for every American citizen...
...been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back in time to see his emperor Titus die, to be evicted from his house by the new Emperor Domitian, to be made a public mock by the rabble of Rome...