Word: failed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one studies any great reform, he will find that this is usually the track taken by the opposition to discredit and break up the movement. When arguments and fair play fail, the opposition usually resorts to personalities and underhanded methods...
...every exponent of civil liberty. The Sacco-Vanzetti case, the fall of the Italian, Salsedo, from the fourteenth story of the offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial; cruelty, torture, and "third-degree" methods--all employed against aliens and persons of foreign birth who are not cognizant of their...
...easy to criticise the Allied policy. The motives back of it are undoubtedly mixed; for example it is probable that there are some extreme militarists who hope that Germany may fail to meet her obligations so that there will be an excuse for the revision of the Treaty, which would give France territorial compensations for her 'economic disappointments. Personally I do not believe that this is the dominant motive back of the present Allied policy. Germany has as yet shown no disposition to meet her real obligations; in consequence the saner spirits in the Councils of the Allies who would...
...early communication, did so with the idea of criticizing the existing social order. Our non-partisan communicator thereby made the double error of jumping to hasty conclusions, and of reading into the first communication something which was not written. Having based his entire article upon a false assumption, I fail to see in it any but that questionable value of personal attack. The criticism was intended to be constructive, not destructive...
...those who have been Photographed have returned their proofs. As the early publication of the Album is dependent on the engraver, it is urgent that all Seniors attend to this at once. Those who have not yet been photographed, should make an appointment at Notman's this week, without fail...