Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brockton, Mass...
...resolve after weeks of vacillation to reinforce Fort Sumter was a confession of bankruptcy in statesmanship, which is concerned with the preservation of human values and not the destruction of them. After that decision, force of the mass, and not skill of the individual, was called to the settlement of questions, and the North having the superior power won the war, as it would doubtless have done under any President. But how near Lincoln came to losing the war is shown by his saying that without the aid of the Negro troops taken from the South's own population...
...support in the U. S. as it has in some European countries (see page 15). Its ablest figure, the late Charles Emil Ruthenberg was a longshoreman's son who worked in factories and newspaper offices. The new leader William Zebulon Foster, 47, was a wandering slum boy of Taunton, Mass., who obtained a haphazard education in public libraries. First he was a Socialist, but in 1919 that party "expelled" him for his part in the I. W. W. steel strikes of that year. He was later convinced that the I. W. W. program was too radical to be practical...
...small brown beast, spry as a witch and ugly as a gargoyle, was perched on the top of a freight engine when it drew into the station of Greenfield, Mass. As the train stopped, several persons tried to grasp the gargoyle's tail. Annoyed and impudent, he snapped it out of reach and hopped away through the freight yard. When finally captured in the corner of a box car, he was discovered to be a ridiculous hobo monkey who had escaped from a circus and boarded the freight train several towns away...
...Newton, Mass., William M. Duncan, while standing in his living room suffered a fainting spell which caused him to fall upon the floor. His wife, when she entered the room and saw her prostrate husband, swooned in a corner. The elder son of William M. Duncan came into the room, saw his parents lolling in their coma, and crumpled up beside them. All three were inert upon the floor when the younger son of the Duncans sauntered in and the iad staggered to the telephone and whispered to a doctor. When the physician arrived, he found four Duncans stretched unconscious...