Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recognized, thus excluding the shop committees. The employers, on the other hand, were willing to admit the principle of collective bargaining, leaving to the employees in each instance the right in choose the agency by which they should be represented. Concerning the public group, Mr. Fish contended that these gentlemen compromised the situation, fearing lest a failure of the present leaders of organized labor would turn that movement over to the I. W. W. and similar Boishevik agitators...
...three of these gentlemen seem to be making the same serious blunder. Apparently they all consider the terms "militarism" and "universal military training" as synonymous. Because the former is deservedly odious and vicious, they conclude that the latter is odious...
...Gleason does not say it openly; he says it by innuendo, if Mr. Gleason is one of that kind of thinkers who class all radicals as revolutionary, and, therefore, below contempt, "radical outbursts" being something to discredit and suppress as dangerous to our constitution, he is one of those gentlemen who sit on the safety valve of social unrest and compress the steam of "radicalism" into real revolution. A consideration of problems, not a contemptuous labelling of all bubbling of the cauldron as "radical outbursts," is perhaps what we most need...
...took a dislike to it, for in 1722 we find a more stringent edict: "No provision for Plumb Cake, Roasted, Boyled, or Baked Meates or Pyres of any kind shall be made by any Commencer." They further stipulated that "Distilled Lyquours" were to be seized by tutors. What these gentlemen did with the confiscated property is not told, but an entry in the diary of one is significant,--"Bought two corkscrews at 4d each...
...gentlemen have had the benefit of a military training. You have learned the need of self-sacrifice and co-operation. If we are to avert the danger of materialism, it will be due to your efforts. You men are to meet the greatest need and the greatest opportunity. It can be met only by a spirit of co-operation...