Word: dangers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democratic Minority of the House Committee on Military Affairs: "Imagi- nation cannot compass the advantages to the fortunate legatee of this gigantic gift from a great government. . . . Can it be anything less than a sinister menace, a grave danger, an unmistakably false step wholly unjustified, a grievous wrong to the future generations that will have to live under it and abide by what we here...
...Stanford, Jr., University at the same time Herbert Hoover did. He became a mining engineer, and she, as his wife, went with him everywhere. Together they helped defend Tientsin in 1900 (Boxer Rebellion), living for six weeks behind a barricade of sugar barrels and rice bags. Though in constant danger, she enjoyed the sugar-ever at hand for tea. Once she read her own obituary in a Peking newspaper. Said she: "There were three columns of it, too! I was never so proud." She excelled in geology while at college, and later, with her husband, translated from medieval Latin...
Helena's Boys. Mrs. Fiske, eternally and fragrantly youthful in her own spirit, has gone to the side of those playwrights who devote three acts to putting the younger generation over their knee. One of the widow Helena's sons is a young shrub who is in danger of being plucked from preparatory school for loudly summarizing a patriotic address as "Bunk!" The other writes for a magazine ai which free love is the burning creed. The widow's prescription for curing them of the New Freedom is as follows...
...Every generation requires a new standard. This generation in the United States has set up a standard for the elimination of liquor. More and more people are realizing that they must defend the Prohibition Law because in its violation there is danger for all law. If a man can break the Volstead Act with immunity, he can commit bigamy; from bigamy he can go to theft. No property, no individual is safe under the law unless all law is obeyed...
...tendency is still present to emphasize organization at the expense of failing to make a personal appeal to any larger number of students. The work done has been necessary and has shown an encouraging progress due to the continuous efforts of the chairman of the committees, but the danger of the Association's becoming a purely executive department must ever be guarded against. This and other problems remain for future cabinets to solve...