Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes, generally...
...that one of Franklin's famous maxims was: "A penny saved is a penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin was too small to permit of rolling over within its confines. V. H. Kramer...
...Minister of War Mussolini showed that his words are not to be taken lightly. As a preparatory gesture fortnight ago, all Italian divisional commanders were assembled for a conference. Last week the War Minister announced a new plan for universal military service under the slogan: "The functions of a citizen and of a soldier are indivisible in the Fascist State...
Died. Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, philanthropist, president of the board of trustees of Manhattan's Cooper Union, president of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co.; of chronic nephritis; in Manhattan. Manhattan's early '90s knew him as the "first citizen of New York." Reticent, he kept his philanthropies out of the newspapers, was a persistent foe of Tammany Hall...
...have found the American student to be characterized by self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." His tolerant charges in turn watch him play tennis with freshmen, dance with sophomores, romp in the annual costume baseball game between students & faculty, dress up to take the part of an ancient Greek citizen or Hindu prince in a college play-and find him pre-eminently worthy of respect, admiration, affection...