Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practical politics was the subject of Anderson's Both Your Houses, which won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1933. Across his frieze of expedient contemporary Congressmen, Mr. Anderson wrote a dramatic motto to the effect that a people is worthy of the government it gets. He carries the theme a step farther in Valley Forge, asserting that, right or wrong, the government a people gets is the one it wants and should have. Neither his Washington nor his Continentals have many illusions about the republic they are about to set up, but Mr. Anderson does his best to dignify...
There is only one other thing to be said--the presentation of an old St. Mark's motto, "Agi quod agis" is the way it reads, "Do well what you do." This, I realize, is a heresy among Harvard men; and yet it has a certain truth in it. If we are going to play football, and if we are going to charge large prices for the privilege of watching it, and if we intend to combat teams of superior calibre, we must do it well. Speaking from personal experience, I never objected to rigorous training rules, long practices, early...
...police, assisted by the Jugoslav police, had uncovered by the week's end, the following "facts": Alexander's assassin, hacked to pieces by police sabres and bullets, was a fat young man named Petrus Kalemen, later said to be Vlada Georgieff. On his arm was tattooed the motto and device of a Mace donian secret society known as IMRO. The weapon with which the murders were committed was a huge ungainly Mauser automatic pistol of the latest type which sprays 20 shots like a machine gun. In his pockets Kalemen also carried a Walther pistol, a hand grenade...
...paid some of 'them less than the 28.5¢ minimum hourly wage required by the Lumber & Timber Products Code. The McDowell County prosecutor went to Circuit Judge Beno F. Howard, asked for an injunction against Miller Killem under the State NRA enforcement law. Judge Howard must have remembered the motto of West Virginia, Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers Always Freemen), when he handed down his decision. Maintaining that it was "not the purpose of this decision to interfere with'' NRA's collective bargaining provisions, he nevertheless denied the prosecutor's petition. Grounds: "It amounts to the deprivation of the fundamental right...
...please its Harvard Circulation the sedate editorial board of "Today's Truth, Tomorrow's Trend" has instituted a new column dealing solely with facts and fancies of the Harvard man and his University. And always eager to please both sides, the master minds of Washington Street have chosen the motto of our great rival in New Haven as its title "Lux et Veritas...