Word: feudal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Professor of Italian Literature, will give the first of a series of lectures on "The Free Communes of Mediaeval Italy" this afternoon at 4 o'clock in Emerson D. The first talk will be on "The Holy Roman Empire and Feudal Institutions in Italy during the 12th Century. The Rise of the Communes, or City States...
Gerald Smith, Louisiana Federation of Labor: The violations of the 18th Amendment are a Sunday School picnic compared with the violations of NRA. Louisiana is a feudal state...
...degree, a necessary thing, but to place it first among the functions of a university is, I repeat, a betrayal of the trust placed in us by society. It is to mistake a privilege for an inalienable right, exactly as the nobility and clergy of France forgot that their feudal privileges were merely payment for their services of protection and consolation and continued to demand those privileges long after they had ceased to do their duty. Society today is little tolerant of useless shibboleths. If we demand our privileges and refuse our duties we cannot expect so long a shrift...
...Atholl Highlanders, numbering about 500 Murraymen, get into their uniforms for great occasions but have no barracks or permanent organization in peacetime. In Wartime the Dukes of Atholl have the feudal right to levy additional troops from the Clan, uniform and equip them. They wear the Murray of Atholl tartan of blue and green squares, divided by thick black bands shot with...
Besides lecturing in History 1, Professor Merriman is Master of Eliot House, which he rules like one of the benevolent feudal barons of whom he lectures as memorably. Never did he seem more in his element than in a recent play of the Eliot House Elizabethan Club, marching through Eliot's enormous dining hall as King Henry...