Word: samuel
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White Americans' treatment of nonwhite minorities is often seen as a prime test of morality. Late colonial records show that few whites were ready to apply their new language about equality and rights to American Indians or blacks. In his Massachusetts Election Sermon in 1770, Samuel Cooke therefore complained that "we, the patrons of liberty, have dishonored the Christian name, and degraded human nature nearly to a level with the beasts that perish...
Aroused, the current Labor government last spring sued to stop the London Sunday Times's serialization of the diaries and Publisher Jonathan Cape's book version. Attorney General Samuel Silkin argued that Cabinet discussions and civil servants' advice must remain forever inviolate to ensure their candor-a contention that the Guardian warned would "put an end to political journalism...
...Samuel Dance Marcellus...
...teachers were in a fighting mood when the strike deadline approached. Finally, after a marathon negotiating session, the union broke off talks, and the strike was on. Suffolk Superior Court Judge Samuel Adams later found five union leaders in contempt of court for continuing the strike-and imposed a $25,000-a-day fine against the union for every day the schools remain closed...
...firing faculty, and bend curriculum to their interests. Faculty members and administrators, integrated ideologically into the defense of the trustees' concerns, can be given relatively free reign with no danger. At Harvard in 1972-73, the governing boads didn't have to step in to deny tenure to Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis and other Marxists. The Economics senior faculty was more than happy to ax the dissenters itself...