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...born in Philadelphia. His parents felt the pioneering urge and took him to California shortly after the first wave of the gold rush. There young Joseph found a home, a schooling, a wife, a passion for the law. In 1885 he was first elected to Congress, began his friendship with Representative William McKinley. As everyone knows, Mr. McKinley became President and appointed Mr. McKenna his Attorney General. The Supreme Court was the next step...
...such quarters as these that the sentiment for a powerful Labor party arises. You will find very little Labor sentiment among the agricultural sections, or at the fashionable watering places. It is all among the working classes themselves who have suffered from lack of economic foresight and a passion for politics...
...Conditions are not growing better. My total impression was one of impending disaster. The country cannot continue under such a state of nerves and under such a dictatorship indefinitely. Something must happen-assassinations, wars or another revolution. It is not only that the conditions menace Italy, but in the passion of their present irrational attitude the Italians certainly threaten to create a sore spot on the face of the Continent...
Ulrich on Hutten was one of those men who formed the bridge between the Humanists and the Reformers of the early sixteenth century. He was a strange sort of a man, a genius with a Faustian passion for knowledge, a poet with a high ideal of a knightly national regeneration, whose golden dreams were yet all strongly fated to turn to dust and ashes. Buffeted about during his short and stormy life, diseased and almost friendless, he possessed at his death only the clothes on his back, a bundle of letters and the pen which had won him a place...
...Nobel Prize" winner's new volume of plays containing "Press Cuttings" "the Glimpse of Reality," "Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction," "The Fascinating Foundling," "Jitta's Atonement," "Constancy Rewarded," and "The Music Cure...