Word: owens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican Senator Owen Brewster, speaking from hearsay after a tour of western Europe, said that Germany's professional and bourgeois crust was being liquidated in the Russian zone...
...Owen J. Roberts, last pre-New Deal Associate Supreme Court Justice and leading dissenter, became eligible-but not ready-for retirement at full pay ($20,000) on his 70th birthday. Proud of his record of not missing a session in more than ten years, he hoped not to miss any for a few years more...
Born in 1771, the son of a farmer, Owen yearned to see the world. At ten, he be came a clerk in McGuffog's drapery shop at Stamford, England. There, lost in thought amid the bolts of cotton, he "began to see sectarianism as the root of evil. He noticed the conjugal bliss of his employers, that although Mrs. McGuffog went to High Church and Mr. McGuffog to Low Church, they drank water from the same well and the water was not poisoned...
...should men be split asunder by abstruse considerations, such as the nature of the body of Jesus Christ?" Obsessed with dreams of a happier world, Owen was nonetheless practical enough to become part owner of a cotton mill at New Lanark in Scotland. There Owen practiced his preaching, "to show that man is the best of all possible ma chineries, a being responsible to the best care." Owen's partners watched his experiments patiently, but bathtubs, school rooms, shorter hours, little mill children clustered lovingly about an owner, and "other airy projects" were too much for them. They presented...
...points of the compass without much deliberation or any reference to their professional usefulness," there were among them "twelve seamstresses and mantua-makers but not a saddler, two watchmakers but , . . only 36 farmers and field laborers to feed the large population, still swelling like a tide." Impossible Shangri-La. Owen's earthly paradise was soon torn by dissension and engulfed by practical economics. In less than three years it was all over. New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon...