Word: know
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...live today, and there are countless of us whom you will not know, who are glad, intensely glad that you live; glad of the power which you possess; deeply heartened to have you do what our souls would have us do. As I listened to you at the Harvard Union, above all I felt your living faith in your message. I am writing you because I believe that the hardest thing which our generation must bear is the mocking, bitter fact that human nature is utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful...
...great strike coming on, which is being organized by I. W. W. elements; a labor organization within Labor itself. It is a very grave and far-reaching condition. I am giving up my leave and going back to Chicago, as I think the situation warrants it. We do not know what is going to develop. It brings the matter to us forcibly that we are now threatened by a rather difficult situation. We are going to have a government of sane constructive elements or we are going to permit radicalism to rule. I don't think we are going...
...want to bring into office men of the best possible ability. No man is so dangerous as one who thinks he knows it all. You remember that Lincoln brought Steward and Stanton into his cabinet, although they had opposed him. Theodore Roosevelt brought to his aid Elihu Root, Hay, and so on. We want to get the best men possible to help us. That is a sound administrative policy. Let's not try to do it all ourselves. We also want a sound, foreign commercial policy, which is something we have never had. Our consulships ought to be filled...
...women may work under reasonable wages. These are the things we must work for. The Candidates have a good system. A strong public opinion is built up which supports the right, and they have very few strikes in Canada. It has been my experience that if you know how to handle men you will have no trouble with them. If you have an quality of leadership or capacity for putting yourself into the other fellow's place, you can soon have 90 per cent of the men following...
...Madame, don't you know this American custom which assures the success of any dinner-party...