Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...real fear of its consequences. Fear is a tremendously important political asset. Fear of the League of Nations helped to give Mr. Harding his tremendous ma- jority in 1920; fear of Mr. LaFollette helped to give Mr. Coolidge his victory in 1924. In pushing the idea of the evil consequences of the Child Labor Amendment to the fore, its opponents have placed its proponents entirely on the defensive. Consequently the arguments against the Amendment should be given first...
...Amendment. There is but one principal argument which has been used for the Amendment. Child labor is a social and economic evil, un- healthful for children and a hindrance to their education; the aim of the proposed Amendment is to prevent work for those too young and to prevent too long hours, night work and dangerous work for older children...
...characters and an amplified concatenation of philosophical firecrackers. Other Hechtiana: A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago (sketches), Gargoyles (flaying journalistic and juridical hypocrisies), The Florentine Dagger (a mystery novel, alleged to have been written in 24 hours, on a bet), Fantasius Mallare and its sequel, The Kingdom of Evil (studies in the elephantiasis of carnal lust, for the first of which Author Hecht, being poor, was temporarily imprisoned) and The Egotist (played by Actor Leo Dietrichstein...
...Three forms of achievement are coveted which give immediate and obvious glory-places on athletic teams, editorships of student publications, presidencies of student organizations. These are sought with unflagging zeal and scholarship is relegated to a subordinate position. . . . The evil influence of many alumni in glorifying the less important features of college life is well known. . . . Many a father holds forth upon his son's performances at college exactly as he would upon those of a promising young three-year-old in his stable...
...fallacy of this argument is that it misses the point. Suppose Dean Stone does prove that the evil is not new, is it any less real for having become chronic? Perhaps the student is too close to the issue to venture a great analysis, but this, at least, is certain: many an undergraduate who takes his college work in all seriousness cannot shake off the haunting question "After all, is it worth while...