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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Almost all those who find it difficult to credit Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thesis regarding the spirit world express surprise that a man of "such high intellectual attainments" should draw conclusions that seem to them unwarranted, and from premises they look upon as insecure...
...third fundamental evil of our old systems of election--and this applies to elections for other officials as well as to those for representatives--is their failure to permit the voter to express his will on the ballot as fully as he pleases so that it can be made effective without regard to how others have voted. Suppose A, B, and C are candidates for one office, and suppose you prefer C, but think he has no chance of being elected. Under our old methods of voting you may not dare to vote for C for fear of "throwing your...
...closing, let me express the hope that the time will come when by the side of this Germanic Museum there will arise a museum devoted to the art of the Romance nations, so that a comparative study of the great artistic achievements of Italy, France, and Germany in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance will be possible. Only then will the aims which actuated me in planning the Germanic Museum be fully realized...
...immediately in sight. The answer was simple. The next line was located as near the first one as practicable. And so history has repeated itself from those old days until now through all the developments of the transit art, from the horse-car to the ten-car subway express train. Mean-while there was plenty of vacant space available for development and plenty of population to comfortably fill it. But instead of spreading out, the population started to spread up. Instead of living and working in one plane we are now doing so in forty planes, and the limit...
...navy belongs to the American people, not to the Navy Department or to Congress, and there would be no doubt that if the American people would express their views on this subject by letters or otherwise to their Senators and Representatives in Congress, such a bill as the one now under discussion would be snowed under by an over-whelming and irresistible majority...