Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campbell farms 100,000 acres without a single beast of burden and with few men. Machinery and mass do it. Today he farms an acre of wheat for $8. The Government standard for efficiency is $16.50. Following his example, he says all farming should be done by great corporations. Great corporations can get credit from banks which view the "farmer" with alarm. Great corporations can develop new inventions,* can watch markets, can hire the efficient and fire the inefficient...
...enjoy your magazine with its spicy, original, brief news items. You might make it more popular with the great mass of the people by being more fair to their interests. I have heard quite a few say that they wouldn't have your magazine for it has sold out to big business and its interests. I agree with them...
...Coolidge- received the graduating class of Public School No. 47 of New York City. They were deaf. She talked to them in sign-language which she had learned when she taught in a school for deaf-mutes at Northampton, Mass...
Died. Charles E. Phillips, 79, millionaire cod liver oil man, landowner, eccentric philanthropist; at his home in Swampscott, Mass., suddenly. He was sitting at the dinner table, talking with his two faithful Chinese servants when Death came. His father began buying up cod liver oil during the Civil War. Charles expanded the industry, but rarely talked about it in his later years. He spent his time traveling about the U. S., enjoying the cinema in his private theatre. He rented or bought every famed film, including the banned "Fatty" Arbuckle ones. When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott...
...nearer to the heart of the matter. Rendering unity out of chaos is a salutary process for the individual, and a necessary operation for the educational institution. It is hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education of Dr. Meiklejohn is one proposal that has been made to remedy it. A general course in philosophy to round out the Platonic...