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...introduction to European philosophy, it puts too much emphasis on six great men--Plato, Aristotle, or Marcus Aurelius in the ancient world, Thomas Aquinas in the medieval, and Bacon, Schophenhauer, or Hegel in the modern, to name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools...
...physician, the mother of famed Actress Katharine Hepburn, the cousin of Alanson Bigelow Houghton. An ardent worker for Causes, she once picketed the White House for suffrage. Following the well-tried formula of the past three years, Birth Controller Hepburn induced a Congressman, this time old (72) Representative Walter Marcus Pierce of Oregon, to introduce a bill exempting the medical profession from the Federal ban on the shipment of contraceptive information and material. Four times before in the last ten years had a House Committee heard arguments on similar legislation and four times before had done nothing. The fifth time...
...want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when I come in off the Road she put on her coat and hat & run out say father Divine tell her to make me take care of her and live like sister & Bro. she claim that he & Marcus Garvey is working together that he is a west Indian, although the government Disposed of Garvey he come with a different line, such as holding a meeting in Newark, charging $1 per head for the bus ride, and the religious boat rides...
...legal or not, the sale made by the estate of Marcus Loew, and by others, had been made in good faith, could not be rescinded...
...more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries and two dummy corporations...