Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Being a good citizen consists, in part at least, in voting intelligently on all important questions. The problems before the citizen, upon which he is called to vote either directly or through representatives, are mainly economic problems. In order to vote and act intelligently, one must possess an understanding of the underlying economic principles. The time is past when these problems were so simple that any one with a fair degree of common sense could vote intelligently. Like all other jobs, the job of the citizen is coming to require a certain amount of technical knowledge. Neither the lawyer...
...times candidate for the Presidency, has again entered the political arena. In Chicago he campaigned for William A. Cunnea, labor lawyer, who is running for mayor on the Socialist ticket. Debs, his health recovered after his recent term in jail for violation of the Espionage Act, is said to possess his old time fire and enthusiasm, speaking every day at labor and radical rallies...
...side by side with these. It is a picture upon which I looked only last year, as I went through some of the countries of the Balkans, Central Europe, and Asia Minor. It is a picture of countless students, many of them dressed in the only clothes which they possess, old faded and patched army uniforms, young women with clothes fit only for the warmth of a summer day, hurrying to class rooms, with faces pinched by cold and hunger. Just read these words, written in a letter by a Russian student...
...middle course between conservatism and radicalism, should be taken. Pointing out that different institutions have different problems he declared that "sectarian colleges and universities most certainly have the right to exclude all but members of their races and believers in their creeds. Non-sectarian institutions, however, do not possess this right. While the position of the former is doubtless the more comfortable; that of the latter is probably less cramped...
...include the premises upon which your conclusion was based. Personally, I believe that the three per cent limitation law has not only checked the very much needed industrial revival, but the immigration limitation law has brought untold suffering to the unfortunate immigrants who sell all they possess to come to our shores only to find the bars up and the open sea as their refuge...