Word: mille
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...College has become a stamping mill. Almost all men wear its stamp after graduation. Few of them roll about sufficiently, afterwards, to gain smoothness or polish or even to lose the narrow, confined shape it gives them...
Vital as is the disbarment of this law, only public education will assure the maintenance of America's fundamental rights. And any majority, however much annoyed by the proddings of dissent, must face the unanswerable logic of Mill's plea for free speech: majorities may be wrong; and when they are right, they can best prove it by letting the minority talk...
...Spring being in the air, the President went windowshopping on F Street without his overcoat. A sample of some goods, sent by the owner of a woolen mill in Lawrence, Mass., with an offer to furnish enough free material to make the President an inauguration suit, was returned with the remark that the President liked the material and would...
Andrew G. Pierce, newly elected President, declared : "Veteran mill men have characterized the depression as the "worst since the Civil War, and our experience would seem to bear out the statement." There seems to be little of the Pollyanna about Mr. Pierce. Concerning the company's future, he said, "the new year is not sufficiently advanced to make predictions valuable...
...humorous. An overworked Congressman is beyond the conception of the average man. Yet a fundamental defect in the efficiency of our representative system is clearly revealed. Congressmen and Senators keep their eyes on their constituents rather than on the legislative products which they help to grind out. John Stuart Mill realized this defect and proposed a system not greatly unlike Mr. Sullivan...