Word: free
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This act was a necessary compromise. - (a) House bill insisted on bullion redemption. Senate bill proposed free coinage: Nation June 19, 1890. - (c) This act reported by conference committee, supported by Sherman, Walker and other sound money...
...been beneficial. - (a) It gave the needed increase of currency. (b) It provided a convenient substitute for coin. - (c) It did away with the needless coinage of silver. - (d) It postponed the free coinage crisis until public opinion had been aroused...
...literature, beginning tonight. Those of us who had the privilege of hearing Mr. Black last year will recollect how scholarly and interesting his lectures were and how popular they became. They are on subjects which he well knows how to make entertaining and instructive; and as the course is free to all, Sever 11 should be well filled...
...faculty deems the establishment of secret societies in the University of Chicago to be undesirable. In its judgement the ends sought by these societies, so far as they are laudable, may be secured by other means which shall be free from the objection of secrecy, of rigid exclusiveness, and of antagonism to the democratic spirit which is inherent in the highest scholarship and manhood and the most exalted citizenship, and it would be deeply gratified that if the high purpose and lofty feeling of the body of students should lead them to co-operate with it by voluntarily excluding everything...
...system of free competition we have today is essentially a system of war, and it produces in men the qualities of solidness. Some of the leaders in industry have all the courage of action, alertness of stategy, and farsightedness in planning, that great commanders in war possess; but, as truly, some of the leaders are thoroughly unscrupulous, with nerves and consciences equally hardened. Indeed if a successful financier is a man of light character, it is more accident than a natural result of the standard of trade. And beyond this, the masses are sifted down, made machines of, told...