Word: plunkett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horace Plunkett, head of the Irish Agricultural Society, seeing his poetry, asked Russell to join the movement, and it was in this way that AE became interested in farming and economics. He has since been a believer in agriculture and its benefits to civilization. It is his theory that in the farming population lies the future of every nation. The man of the city is blighted by the noise and confusion, and if ever the farming population should cease to be, civilization could not last more than three generations, he claims...
...Pittsburgh one James Plunkett, 52, panhandler, begged Harry Westbrook, 90, for a dime. Westbrook gave him 25?. Plunkett demanded more. Westbrook took off Plunkett's eyeglasses, felled him with a smart blow...
...that the intelligent way to argue is to do it in the form of parleys. The younger contemporary of the London Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...