Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York marched a process server with a subpoena for the Governor to appear as a witness in behalf of one Lyman H. Bevans, Albany attorney facing disbarment. Governor Smith accepted the service, either to show he held himself no different from common citizens in the law's eyes, or because he was ignorant of the fact that the Governor of New York cannot be subpoenaed. With the subpoena, Governor Smith accepted the customary witness fee- 50 cents-which he soon dropped into a Roman Catholic poorbox. When notified that the Governor...
...that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...
...shall never forget the reddened snowsleds, filled with the hacked bodies, going to the cemetery to desposit their sad burden, in a common pit. They brought the wounded to the hospital? armless and legless men, mutilated babies and young women whose screams became faint as their wounds overcame them...
...what remained. They discovered that emotional activity is controlled by a very small section in the optic thalamus. This is either of a pair of oblong masses of grey matter situated in the inner recesses of the brain. It is the most primitive part of the brain and is common in all vertebrates from fishes to man. The higher thought centres of the brain keep this primitive focus under control. But if the higher controls are injured or dulled, this emotional centre functions energetically. Thoughtless persons are subject to fits & fancies...
...history. Prices of time-tried shares, long leaders in what has become known as the Coolidge market, were slashed unmercifully by the short interests, marking a decline on the exchange that reflected the country-wide depression now being experienced in almost every avenue of trade. U. S. Steel common, General Motors, General Electric and N. Y. Central shares, known as financial bellwethers and representative of industrial, railway and utility activity, were unable to offer their usual resistance to the present economic disquiet and concluded at prices considerably lower than they have notched for months...