Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system of their own country, sometimes to other features of its life also. The current ideas afloat in our colleges, the tutorial system, the division into college units, and freedom from minor restrictions common in early American institutions--are fruits of such contact. Although many of the mental sprigs brought home from abroad would certainly wreak havoc if grafted on the American educational tree, a little instinct for selection can make the foreign contacts all profit and no loss...
...Syndicalism Act in assisting in the organization of the California Communist Labor Party. The court ruled that the Syndicalism Act could not be called discriminatory because it "affects all alike no matter what their business or calling"; could not be said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years at San Quentin prison. Said she: "I have nothing to complain of in comparison to Sacco and Vanzetti...
...Port Tobacco, Charles County, Md. When she was seven years old her mother and two brothers were sold to a Virginia plantation; she never saw them again. Soon after, she and her grandmother were sold to a slave trader in Baltimore. Later her grandmother purchased her own freedom, lacked money to do as much for "Pinky." But in 1860 the grandmother thought of appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed...
...pilfering $20,956 in ten years from the county school board by raising checks, because, he said, he came of stock which believed no woman should be punished "unless she had reached such a state of depravity that she was no longer a fit person to be at freedom...
Purpose. The Council of the League of Nations explicitly postulated that "the Conference is not . . . composed of responsible delegates invested with full powers for the conclusion of conventions" but is rather "a general consultation, in the course of which various programs and doctrines may be freely exposed without the freedom of discussion being restricted by any immediate necessity to transform the conclusions of the conference into international engagements...