Word: remains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, to say that democratic government can exist only in countries where literacy is general. The success of the republics of antiquity with their large slave populations obviously precludes such a conclusion. Yet it does definitely appear that literacy must prevail among the franchised if popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education and, conversely...
...fill their columns without resorting the shady sides of law and living. Yet the public would still demand these and with good reason. For if the upper middle class, or even all of what could be termed the middle class, were subtracted, the total population of the nation would remain substantially intact. The proletariat remaining contains millions of city dwellers drawn largely from foreign lands, sunk at the bottom of the social scale, and intellectually nourished on simple tales of virtue and sordid tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers...
...American Association of University Professors in their April Bulletin accuse excessive attention to intercollegiate football as distorting values which remain with college men through life, as causing neglect of those intellectual interests which furnish "the fundamental purpose of a college education...
...only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
...Zenith people had been licensed regularly, they had committed no crime. Neither was their violation of the administrative regulations a crime. He carefully avoided a construction of the Congressional law (the statute of 1912) dealing with the subject, which might render that law unconstitutional. Thus the conditions remain undecided, unchanged, although sentiment seemed coalescing to make more detailed the statutes or to make more effective Secretary Hoover's regulations...