Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...13th issue p. 12, contains this statement: When he (meaning Lindbergh) left the following day, a family of Morons, island aristocrats...
...went to his mother's people on the New Reservation, sixty miles west of Topeka. At the age of nine he turns up in the white man's end of Kansas as a jockey, riding races at the county fairs. At the age of seventeen Curtis left the track and got a job driving a hack in Topeka. By day he went to school. By night he drove his cab. Forming a friendship with a lawyer, he became interested in the law, and studied in his small spare time...
...after a hiatus of fifteen years, there came another turn of fortune. The unexpected happened. A Senator in good health and sound mentality actually resigned his office. He was a Kansas Senator and Curtis was elected to succeed him. On January 29, 1907, Curtis left the House of Representatives and entered the Senate, of which Henry Cabot Lodge had been a distinguished member for fifteen years. Lodge had achieved a position third from the top of the Committee on Foreign Relations. Curtis began at the bottom of a committee which had no work and never met, the Committee...
...place in it. Great men of all kinds have been found to have faults just as grievous as their less famous brethren, and the more noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn, and few attempts to deny them their titles have been made...
...purer a race kept itself, the quicker and higher it rose among its neighbors. Today, writes the shrewdly erudite president of the American Museum of Natural History, "purity of race is found in but one nation-the Scandinavian." But, he laments, "so many of its best men have left the homeland for America that today the dependent class is relatively large; realizing these conditions, the Scandinavian people have set on foot a movement to keep the best men and women at home, and such a movement has also been begun in the United States. Such new racial consciousness...