Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vexed, Governor Young and his fellow Californians then proposed that Arizona keep her present vested water rights (233,800 acre-feet) and tributaries (some 2,159,000 acre-feet); that the remainder of the water be equally divided after deducting Nevada's 2%; but that either state be free to use any water not used by the other within 20 years. Asked if he liked this proposition, Governor Hunt of Arizona exploded: "Hell, no! What we want is a square deal...
...Geneva, a mob of 5,000 took possession of the city. They smashed about $40,000 worth of plate glass and merchandise in their fellow-citizens' shop windows. They badly damaged the Palace of the League of Nations, to which the U. S. does not belong. Police protected the U. S. Consulate and U. S. Consul Somerville Pinkney Tuck avoided trouble by a quick-witted remark. As he moved, unrecognized among the rioters, a woman stuck a nasty, leering face close to his and shouted loudly: "We wish to kill this American Consul pig!"* "Yes," said Mr. Tuck...
Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries. He concluded: "Go back and tell your fellow citizens, if you will, that the Soviet is not so bad as all that, and although the Communists are the chief enemies of private property, when they make agreements with capitalists they will fulfill them honestly...
...Napoleon, Victor Hugo wrote his great novel venting protest against the harsh penal system of the day. He meant to proclaim the Christian doctrine that all men are brothers, the hopeful opinion that even the most reprehensible wretch is kin to God. His example is Jean Valjean, a strapping fellow, brutalized by 19 years in the chains of convict labor for the theft of a loaf of bread. The kindness of an old bishop causes the spark to glow in Valjean, so that after his release, he devotes himself to saintly deeds. He becomes mayor of a small French town...
Dissent. Before these final reports were ready, the Most Rev. Germanos Troianos, Metropolitan of Sardis, arose to announce, gravely, politely, that he and his fellow representatives of Eastern Orthodoxy would be unable to accept the plan for unity. It was based on compromises, he said. It arrived only at "an external agreement, in letter alone...