Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Room of the Union. The purpose of this meeting is to interest men in Boston politics and to try to get them to co-operate with the Good Government Association, an organization which is open to party as well as non-party men who believe in the election of honest and capable persons to city office, and who desire to take a more or less active part in city affairs. To this end the Political Club is working in conjunction with the Good Government Association...
...most effective speakers employ the simplest methods. They must have something to say, they must mean what they say, and they must say it so that it can be heard. Sound arguments and plain facts carry more votes than party abuse or flights of rhetoric. Honest purpose, backed by character, does not always succeed, yet never more than today has the sincere advocacy of a cause a better chance of hearing...
...winter Dr. Grenfell travels for miles over the snow to bring medical assistance to the sick; to raise the standard of living in the settlements which are often degraded by vice and filth; and to give the people who have no means of subsistence the chance to earn an honest living. The stereopticon slides of his hospitals were of particular interest, since they described the relief which is brought to many sufferers each year, and the need which they fill in a land where medical service is practically unknown...
...finally, the leader must be a man of faith. In every department the country needs strong and honest workers, scrupulous politicians, business men who can unite the great organizations of labor and capital, journalists who care more for truth than for subscribers, doctors who are regardless of fees won in practice--men, in short, who care more for principles than for victory, and who must have implicit faith in a hidden power which is constantly working for the ultimate victory of good...
...certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest administration of school affairs in the recent past...