Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Open terrorist methods have been used by the mill-owners in Passaic. New Jersey, in an attempt to crush the textile strikers," stated Albort Weisbord, noted Communist and labor agitator yesterday in the course of his speech at the Liberal Club...
...When the textile workers have proved that a homogeneous group of people can resist the methods employed by the mill owners for the greater part of a year, it seems evident that the nation is in sympathy with the strike. There has never been a strike in industrial history before that has lasted so long or given rise to such bitter and varied issues as the Passaic demonstration. The mill-owners have lost over $50,000,000 during the 43 weeks of the strike. The suffering of the workers has been incalculable...
...than a million voters, where the difference between the two candidates will probably be less than 20,000 ballots. Onetime (1914-15) Governor Walsh, Irish-Catholic, Wet, is the most potent vote-getter in the commonwealth. His strength lies in Boston (outside of Back Bay) and in the large mill towns. Senator Butler echoes "Coolidge and Prosperity," and sounds pleasant to wealthy manufacturers, to rock-bound farmers, to red-brick- and-green-shutter folk from the Berkshire Hills to Cape Cod. Senator Butler has been caricatured as beseeching Heaven to send the President and Mrs. Coolidge to Northampton, to cast...
Both men attack on the ground of excessive scholarship, the intensive study of minutae, the coercion of minds in the period of growth into too narrow channels. The man who goes through the mill is to each of these men a repulsive, or at least uninteresting creature. Mr. Pingree believes of holders of this degree that they have "wasted three of the best years of their lives and trent their minds into as tortured positions as Buddhistic fakirs bend their bodies." Mr. Marks says of the same person that "if he wants his doctorate in English, he must Forego knowledge...
...fashion to blame the Ph.D. degree. If this continues, a reaction within the universities will force upon the graduate student a certainly arid scholarship. Of course the scholarly side of the graduate work is now stressed. But such must be the case. Unless a man has gone through this mill or is a genius, he cannot know his subject. And there are not many geniuses in this country. Writers like these attackers of the Ph.D. want personality stressed. The CRIMSON in a recent editorial wanted the same thing. Yet it never suggested that scholarship should be foresworn for personality...