Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...tone which ought to be applied to many more Germans and to the German Government itself; "If you can prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal property...
...prove to me that you protested against the burning of the Library at Louvain, and that you endeavored to secure protection and such treatment as you now request for the professors of the universities in the Belgian and French territory occupied by the Germans, then I will exert any influence that I may possess to procure the return of your personal scientific property...
...loss to know exactly what our faith was. Should we load them with gifts? Apparently not, for Mr. Flinn advocates a "normal war service gratuity", a very pretty term, indeed; but is it much different from the "common or garden variety" pension? We are not proclaiming our treatment of the Civil War and Spanish War veterans from the housetops; but they re ceived practically the same thing as a "national war service gratuity...
...believe, however, that Mr. Laski holds no such extreme view, and that his regard for what he considers the ill-treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this...
...should be liberal to her veterans. Canada, they say, has awarded bonuses averaging $420; but the pay of a Canadian soldier during the war cannot be compared to that of a Yankee doughboy. The Dominion is making a some what tardy retribution for what she probably now considers parsimonious treatment during the war. War time generosity has its advantages; peace time must bring a curtailment of all expenditures. We cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means increased taxation. Much of the present unrest...