Word: solon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Solon's peaceful revolution," says Durant, "is one of the encouraging miracles of history." He introduced a graduated income tax, created a popular assembly to check the old-fashioned aristocratic council, made the entire citizenry a panel from which jurors were chosen. The quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck to these laws if a dictator, Peisistratus, had not enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens...
Piano won the Jeremy Belknap prize of $50 for his translation of a passage from Wilkie Collins' '"The Frozen Deep" which was considered the best French composition written by a first year student. Honorable mention was awarded to Solon J. Candage...
...former Solon, new "legislative agent" for the city of Boston, declared it was a "shame" and "kind of tough" that Russia was not going to take care of Hicks whom he described as having been "bodily fired from Harvard University...
...first, the offer of a 25 year non-aggression agreement and, secondly, the German decision to re-enter the League of Nations. The attention of statesmen all over Europe is centering on these two rather long and sharp thorns in the olive branch extended by the Fuehrer, and the solon of France are carefully scrutinizing them under their high-powered microscopes to see wherein lies the rub. Clearly there is something which has aroused the suspicious of Flandin, Eden, Benes, Litvinoff and the other members of the continental brain-trust...
This week Toledo joins Dublin, Ireland and 426 U. S. towns and cities in taking the management of its municipal affairs out of the hands of a political amateur and turning it over to a non-partisan professional. On New Year's Day the reign of Mayor Solon T. Klotz came officially to an end. To manage Toledo its city council had selected John North Edy, who in point of experience was a professional indeed...