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...research, the press plays the part of a helpful guide, forming a public opinion that is devoid of prejudice and mass hatred and tolerant of things it cannot fully understand. But today a militant section of the publishing business stands ready to throttle the academic liberty which is the lifeblood of the press itself, as well as of schools and colleges...
...effect of Amoskeag's collapse on Manchester's 76,000 inhabitants. Manchester grew up around the Amoskeag mills. Over half of the very land it stands on was sold or deeded to the city by Amoskeag owners. Since 1805 Amoskeag has provided the city's business lifeblood. At the peak of its prosperity in 1921, Amoskeag's red-brick plants, stretching for almost a mile along the Merrimack River (see cut), employed 18,000 workers, paid nearly one-half the city's industrial payroll. Last week Amoskeag's workers, jobless for ten months...
...Thesis- One April afternoon in 1917 George W. Norris of Nebraska stood before the U. S. Senate and cried out: "We are going into war upon the command of gold. ... I would like to say to this war god, 'You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.' ... I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign upon the American flag." Senator Norris' words were not history. They were the judgment of a man upon contemporary events...
...Italy the position was that if Britain should do anything silly, such as have the League of Nations add oil, the lifeblood of Italy's war machine in Ethiopia, to the list of products banned under Sanctions, then Dictator Benito Mussolini might indeed do something silly. As the polished diplomatic game of understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers...
...Industry is incurably optimistic; its beacon is hope, and change is its lifeblood. ... All through the ages ... the cry has been raised that the end of human advance is at hand. Asiatic kings had that sombre fallacy carved on monuments rescued from oblivion by the far-ranging archaeologists of our dynamic...