Word: backed
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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Hornblower, Duncan and Huntington did the best offensive work, and between them scored 9 out of the 10 goals. The work of Hornblower was especially noticeable. He carried the puck well, shot hard and accurately, and was very fast in following back. During the second half the team-play on the offence grew more ragged, due to numerous substitutions, but the defence remained as strong as before and Amherst had practically no chance of scoring...
...protection of their wives, mothers, sweethearts and daughters to negroes. Today the newspapers are filled with accounts of their atrocious crimes. This is the direct result of taking them from the plow and setting them at the spelling book. Mr. Booker Washington's level-headed work in coaxing them back to manual labor is praiseworthy in the extreme. Granting the negro his freedom instantaneously was a mistake, but above all the mistake of granting them the right to vote is to blame for the present lamentable condition of the black race...
...that the officials of the city might share in the spoils. Much the same conditions were found in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Chicago. Opposition was the same in all cases. Opposition came from the slums. It came from the top of the city. It also came from the state government, back of the city. All reforms were practically stopped by this opposition. Then, I mean about ten years ago, we were all talking about municipal reform. We thought the state governments and the national governments were all right. I dropped the cities and took up the state. I went back...
...Back of all this was corruption in business. Business was corrupting politics and not politics business. I found more grafting in business than I ever found in any city. About this time came the disclosures of grafting in the insurance companies. The policy holders in the companies are the citizens, who are supposed to elect officers and directors. Investigation showed that the directors were organized in combines which elected committees, and these committees interlocked, thus making a ring around the officers. When the ward heelers obtained policies from the people, they got proxies which went back to the officers...
...brief glance at the names of the speakers cannot fail to reveal the significance of these lectures. Mr. Hill, Senator LaFollette, and Mr. Pinchot will be looked back upon as among the most prominent makers of history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...