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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean, Signor Zaniboni, that you would have fired with intention to hit and kill 77 Capo del Governo...
...each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads to keep one entranced for many hours...
...mothers and disabled fathers, charged the State with the responsibility of keeping them in adequate homes. He said: "This is not communism. I seek no redistribution of wealth. Let every man and woman, so long as they are honest and play the game, accumulate the wealth that seems to mean so much to them. But let them be held, through taxation, to contribute the modest share that will be needed for our plan of providing for the poorest classes, unable to protect themselves, the comfort and the health to which they are entitled...
...think that the Cantonese forces in China are the most hopeful forces there, for several reasons. Some faction must soon win out in the struggle for power in China, and in my opinion if the Southern party wins, it will be the best for the country. It will mean the unification of the country for the first time in many years. This alone, will certainly be a great benefit. In addition, the victory of the Cantonese will mean the end of foreign domination of China. Whether people realize it or not, the white race has dominated China for years...
...Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father and sons being so easily enhanced by differences of education, speech, and dress. The old man is an admirable mixture...