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From minnowhood, Sturly was curious. Feeding shoreward, along the Continental Shelf, he hailed all creatures-from poor groping Shrimps to surly Shong, the Hun Sturgeon. Curiosity became an unrest, a driving instinct to plumb Life...
...preliminary greeting Mr. Lodge said: 'Mr. Hanna, I insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform.'Hanna looked up and said: ' Who in hell are you ?' Lodge answered: 'Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts.' ' Well, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it,' replied Mr. Hanna. Lodge said: 'All right, sir, I will make my fight on the floor of the convention.' 'I don't care a damn where you make your fight,' replied Hanna."The chapter goes on to imply that the Massachusetts...
...regular Wednesday evening informal discussion at the Student Liberal Club will be held this evening at 7 o'clock. The subject will be the plan for industrial democracy which was suggested by Mr. Glenn Plumb in his speech at the Liberal Club luncheon on Saturday, March...
...Plumb went on to discuss a plan for the reorganization of industry, on the lines of profit-sharing, and equal control by capital and labor. "Remember that the railroads are only a part of a great industrial system. What must be reformed in the railroads must also be reformed in the rest of our industry. The whole system needs drastic reorganization, politically, socially, and economically...
...Problem of Industrial Democracy" was the subject chosen by Mr. Glenn Plumb, the famous industrial economist, in his speech at the Student Liberal Club on Saturday. Mr. Plumb has made a lifelong study of industrial conditions in the United States, and has become an authority on the subject. The main foundation of his remarks was that there can be no political democracy without industrial democracy, for the two are by nature inseparable...