Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collection is not yet fully completed, for some specimens are on the way here, and some are still to be bought. President Eliot then introduced Professor Toy who spoke of the extent and use of the Museum, and the life of the Semitic people. Phoenicia was the first naval nation and the inventor of the alphabet. The Phoenicians left their traces on all the coast of the Mediterranean and planted many religious ideas in Greece...
...because:- (a) It would make railroads the subjects of political schemes. Hadley, ch. XIII; Hudson, p. 327; Spofford, The Railroad Question, 18.- (b) Private enterprise would be lessened, -(c) It has failed in countries where circumstances were more favorable than in the United States. Hadley, 214, 217, 228, 246; Nation...
...lost the confidence of the country: Nation, Vol. 51, pp. 375, 393, 413.- (a) It is a notably corrupt party in its leaders Quay and Dudley: N. A. Review, Vol. 150, p. 706; N. Y. Herald, Nov. 3, 1888, p. 8.- (b) Corrupt methods to gain power: N. Y. Herald, October...
...sympathy with the wishes of the people.- (a) Tariff legislation: Butterworth's speech, Boston Herald, May 13, 1890; Nation, Nov. 27, 1890; Schurz's Speech, Boston Post, Oct. 21, 1890.- (b) Extravagant financial legislation: D. A. Wells, in Boston Post, July 8, 1890.- (c) It has been grossly sectioual: Matterson's Speech, Boston Post, Sept. 27, 1890; Cong. Record, Aug. 9, 1890, p. 8382; Forum...
...Harrison responsible for the defeat of his party in 1890: N. Y. Sun, Nov. 15, 1890; Nation, March 12, 1891.- [a] By making no effort to check the reckless and indefensible legislation of Cong. including pensions, tariff, new states and increase of silver purchase.- [b] The election showed that the people disapproved of the administration...