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...Colonial editors was the repeal of the Stamp Act, which they considered a punitive tax and a fetter to a free press. Still in rebellious mood, the Boston Weekly News-Letter on Dec. 2, 1773 boldly addressed its readers with a call to arms against the British. "FRIENDS! BRETHREN! COUNTRYMEN!" shouted the News-Letter's, front page. "That worst of plagues, the detested TEA, shipped for this Port by the East-India Company, is now arrived in this Harbour; the Hour of Destruction or manly Opposition to the Machinations of Tyranny stares you in the Face...
...Dows, a bristle-haired young socialite painter from Duchess County, N. Y. He has been given $550,000 with which to provide jobs for no more than 400 artists from relief rolls, to be chosen for artistic ability alone. Already TRAP artists look down their noses at their WPA brethren...
...high-powered explosives and a recently discovered method of isolating the elusive vitamin "D" are on view. As a proof that our contemporary chemists have not entirely neglected the lighter side of life, the latest method for aging green whisky takes a well-earned position among its more sedate brethren of "recovery...
After eleven years at the Molokai leper colony, Father Damien one Sunday addressed his congregation not with his usual "Brethren," but "We lepers." During the next five years his face took on the leper's look, leonine, patchy, with fierce eyes and thick lips. In 1889 Father Damien died, aged 49. His people buried him in the churchyard...
...April afternoon in 1917 George W. Norris of Nebraska stood before the U. S. Senate and cried out: "We are going into war upon the command of gold. ... I would like to say to this war god, 'You shall not coin into gold the lifeblood of my brethren.' ... I feel that we are about to put the dollar sign upon the American flag." Senator Norris' words were not history. They were the judgment of a man upon contemporary events...