Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suppressing such practices and the Clayton Act to prevent interlocking directorates was passed. Meanwhile, the trusts were continuing. Things were getting bad and the country was getting frightened. Arthur T. Hadley, then President of Yale, conservative as he was, admitted, along about 1900, his fear that within 25 years the country would be ruled by an economic emperor at Washington...
...from the first met with violent opposition from the old school of prison administrators. He was appointed warden of Sing Sing Prison in December, 1914. He wiped out the rank corruption among the officials and improved the unbearable living conditions of the inmates, but his activities aroused jealousy and fear among his political opponents, who made an attempt to remove him from his position...
...applicants are limited to two tickets unless the demand is so great that the number will have to be cut down to only one ticket. So far the applications have been coming in in large numbers and the authorities at the H. A. A. fear that the allotment of single tickets only may have to be enforced...
...have been decreasing in the last four or five years. Some would have us believe that this is due to causes that make action by the Congress unnecessary. We do not agree with those. We believe that the decrease is due to the publicity given this crime and the fear of a law by the United States, providing for punishment for those who participate and are responsible for lynchings. The American people, generally, have been for the first time told the truth regarding lynchings, and that they are not caused by the commission of heinous crimes, except in a small...
After much serious thought, may I make a suggestion? I have fried not to to influenced by ancestral or sentimentalties. I think my conclusion is unbiased. Might we not, without fear of injuring the feelings of the City of Cambridge (which we can ill afford to do), might we not offer Memorial Hall to the Irish Republicans? There is a small deserving. Freedomloving God-fearing group whom the cruelty of England has put under the yoke. But they are still alive. And here would be a drill hall! What could be nobler than for us to further the cause...