Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of whether co-operative buying may become an evil partaking of the nature of a "trust" is now a live issue before the U. S. House of Representatives. Representative Walter H. Newton of Minnesota recently introduced a bill to authorize and encourage pooled buying of raw materials abroad, but the House voted down the bill last week...
...married people practice birth control. Let us legalize it and get away from the bootlegged devices of the corner drug store. ... I am not for free love. . . . The companionate marriage is real marriage. It will put an end to the immorality of the present day and correct the divorce evil. Young people with the fear of children removed can marry earlier. They can have children when they want them...
Professor of sociology, the author recognizes one of America's "problems" in the itinerant Negro "with the don't keer spirit, go day, come day, God send Sunday." But he sees the sociological evil in a setting of romance, and suggests graphically, if a bit lengthily, that his black hero's vaguely discontented lack of ambition is somewhat atoned by the charm of his sudden optimism...
...Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...growing conservatism, a fear of publicity, and an apprehensiveness of powerful personalities and minds especially (since the war) when they are of certain foreign extractions. A great deal of this is undoubtedly justified so far as the selection of students is concerned, but in it also lies the evil which earlier forced Munsterberg and Santayana to resign and which more recently caused the withdrawal of Baker and MacDougall. And now, since the Sacco-Vanzetti case, there is an antagonism in the Law School against Frank-furter. Why should not a professor bring his knowledge to bear upon matters of public...