Word: freemen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...printer travelling with Glover, who died at sea, then took the project in hand and cared for its transportation to the New England coast. This man, Daye, first put the press into operation in Cambridge. According to a record of Governor Winthrop. "The first thing printed was the freemen's oath; the next was an almanac made for New England by Mr. William Pierce, mariner; the next was the Psalms newly turned into verse...
...governor and mayor of New York. Would Mr. Thomas care to test the legality of the Riot Act? Mr. Thomas knew that the U.S. Government has on file other documents besides those that provide for the suppression of disorder. There is for instance the Constitution, which guarantees to freemen the right to meet and voice their opinions. Next day, in Garfield, N. J., Mr. Thomas climbed into the crotch of an appletree stump and put the Riot Act to the test...
...that one can talk as badly and incorrectly as he choose and yet save his country, to say nothing of the domestic hearth, while one who pronounces the language so that it is at once melodious and correct has a certain meretrioiousness in his composition of which freemen must aware. It is one more case of the divine right of incorrectness. The Transcript...
...more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...