Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When addressing a foreign government, custom and propriety demand that a foreign minister write it a note. But there are occasions when notes are ineffective. Then a foreign minister may address himself, say, to the public, talking loud enough so that the foreign government in question may understand...
...power to write the tax law, I would go back to the tax of 1916, where the highest bracket of the surtax...
...question: "Should Cabinet Ministers write newspaper articles ?" has become : "Why does Lord Birkenhead do it?" In an article entitled "Murder," the noble lord expressed much philosophical sympathy with a man who kills a blackmailer to save himself and his family. In the Commons, the Premier was asked: ''Have you read the article?" and: "Considering that there is a bill before the House to abolish capital punishment, is not the article a matter of public policy?" The Premier laconically replied : "I very seldom read the afternoon papers," sat down...
...jealously, vindictiveness, fear, or avarice of wealth and fame. Sometimes the passion springs from better motives, a desire to help others unjustly treated, or eagerness for the success of a cause in whose righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally...
...quarrel with the Honor System is not to be taken as an impugnment of the moral fibre of students but rather as a disapproval of the mechanics of such a means of control. Most students take examinations, write reports, and so forth, without caring whether they are working under the surveillance of a proctor or of their own consciences. For them it makes no difference whether or not they have an Honor System. As for the student who says that it makes him nervous to have a proctor in the room, that he constantly feels uneasy, we have little sympathy...