Word: gen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Gen. Lord Rokeby is dead in London...
...said that Dartmouth College thought of giving Benjamin F. Butler an LL. D. last year in company with Senator Bayard, but when the Delaware gentleman heard the programme he informed the college authorities that they must choose between him and Gen. Butler. They did so choose...
...lecture last night was principally an answer to Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Gen. Walker first commented on the position taken by Mr. Mill in his later years on the land tenure question, and then gave a complete statement of Mr. George's theory of rent and the nationalization of the land. As to Mr. George's three great arguments, he affirms that commercial disturbances are due to speculations in land. This assertion, however, has no evidence to support it, and is opposed to the opinions of all economists. Land is far from being an object peculiarly subject...
...replying to the questions, Gen. Samuel M. Quincy writes: "I have no objection to state that I have long regarded the matter of attendance on all religious exercises and observances as something which should be purely voluntary in every instance, for which reason it certainly seems to me now that I should favor the granting of such a petition as that which you mention...
...Gen. Quincy, however, declines to pledge himself to any definite course of action in case of his election...