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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposes to raise $43,000,000 from increased postal rates, of which $30,000,000 shall come from parcels post, $5,000,000 from second class mail, and the balance from third and fourth class. Farm organizations protested. Publishers who would be hit by the second class mail increase expressed irritation. Postmen lamented the vanished vision of the Edge raid. Mr. New was left to his honest troubles. One Congressional proposal was to increase parcels post rates by $80,000,000. As pointed out by Mr. New, this would probably put parcels post out of business. There are such things...
...their context, and knowing the spirit of friendship and understanding you have always manifested in our long association, I had no doubt that these words were to be taken in the sense you have stated, and I was quite sure that it was far from your thought to express or imply any threat. I am happy to add that I have deeply appreciated your constant desire to promote the most cordial relations between the peoples of the two countries...
...also illegal to teach what Christ taught on the subject of non-resistance. In America no one can enter the country without first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage around the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This...
...inseparable from hatred and condemns both. It is that it refuses us the right to love anything more than peace. To the mass of men this refusal is, in the fullest sense of the word, damnable Nor can those who would decline to give their own lives, or to express it perhaps more fairly, take another's, in defense, shall we say, of a woman's honour be justifiably either surprised or offended when harsh terms are applied to them. In my opinion, whatever their sincerity, to call them martyrs would be a profanation of a noble word...
...England, and Editor of the "Hibbert Journal", will lecture on "The Challenge of Life and Liberty" at 8 o'clock this evening in the New Lecture Hall. This is the first of a series of three Southworth Lectures by Professor Jacks, who has come to this country for the express purpose of lecturing at Harvard. The other lectures will be given tomorrow and Thursday...