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When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...goes out over the nation. And the old people in the hills of West Virginia realize that the young men of Harvard or of Yale or of Columbia and the young men of the United States are for peace or war or whatever they are for. When you poke fun at peace demonstrations, remember that. Remember that the student, whatever scorn or contumely be at times levelled at him, is in the minds of the mass of the citizenry most looked up to as a group. To the mass of citizenry if not to himself he is a hope...
...Down. Cried he: "There can be no human or personal rights without property rights." They paid even less attention to the resolution which Representative Dies introduced for a House investigation of the Sit-Down and its causes. Even under the Old Deal, no Congressional investigating committee ever dared poke its nose far into the affairs of Labor. Under the New Deal, which has missed few chances to turn the limelight on Capital's transgressions. Labor's inviolability has been unquestioned. The Dies resolution was quietly turned over to the potent Rules Committee, from which few bills unwelcome...
...both working the same side of the street. Still. Old Ironpants is a public man, and a figure of our time in the U. S. A., and I imagine that years from now, when the historians are writing about the fury of this campaign, they will poke around in Hugh Johnson's stuff to recall the spirit of the fight...
...here at the place of my birth, I have sought to make clear what I believe to be the choice now before our country. It is the choice between the pig-in-the-poke policies of the present Administration and those American institutions under which we have enjoyed more liberty and attained a higher standard of living than any other people in the world...