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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever its origin, the problem child was finally discovered by the night watchmen and, amid the mingled cheers and boos of Dunster-men was unceremoniously wheeled out through the gate, specially opened for the occasion. Its ears ringing with the echoing boom of a regular cheer for the Austin, the infant was trundled off to points unknown...
...light of this speech, it is interesting to recall the origin of the term, Forgotten Man. In 1883 William Graham Sumner, then Professor of Political and social Science in Yale University, delivered an address under the title of "The Forgotten Man." Summer defined him as "the clean, quiet, virtuous, domestic citizen, who pays his debts and his taxes, and is never heard of out of his little circle." The lecturer then went on to say: "We all seem to be under the delusion that the rich pay the taxes . . It is the Forgotten Man who pays . . He works, he votes...
...after all even if it was the drizzle that proved the point. The noise of trunks bumping on the steps of Thayer and Matthews, of Gallatin and Walter Hastings would have jarred on the Vagabond's nerves on a bright sunny day when sounds seemed to reverberate from their origin. But the rain was a dull absorbent muffler. It was like--thought the Vagabond--it was like a ball of wool falling on a Persian...
...published several scholarly papers on the phonology and syntax of Persian dialects. Last summer Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer left England to spend a year and a half with the Burushu people in the mountainous north corner of India and round out an exhaustive study of their language, customs, origin. Unruly, boisterous, athletic, the 17,600 Burushu are not much like their lackadaisical neighbors of India's plains and valleys. They speak a queer, syntactically complex language called Burushaski, with no less than four genders. Lieut.-Colonel Lorimer believes himself the only white man with a working knowledge of Burushaski, knows...
...Herbert Hoover in the Saturday Evening Post: "The origin, character and affinities of the regimentation theory of economics and government . . . can best be determined by an examination of the actions taken and the measures adopted in the United States during recent months...