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Back in Virginia the iron-handed governor, Sir William, Berhely, had gone on record with "I thank God that there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years." Later, he contributed personally to the divinity school that is now the College of William and Mary at Williamsburg...
College authorities are the Master or President, and the Fellows. The Fellows may be active or-unknown to the Undergraduate. His tutor looks after his morals, his director looks after his work. Both these functions consist mainly of saying once a term: "Well, Pinkerton, everything all right?" "Yes, thank...
...crowd's inspection. John Crempa, wounded in hand and leg by deputies' bullets, was carried out on the porch in the arms of a husky friend. The thin, overwrought widower stopped crying long enough to lift his bandaged left hand, quaver: "My friends, I want to thank you for the sympathy you have shown for us and for all you have done for us. I hope the blood which my wife shed will do something to help human rights and justice." Then the long funeral procession wound up the road to a Roman Catholic cemetery where Sophie Crempa...
...filled the bill and been approved even by the business men themselves. Surely, now that the breathing spell has arrived, a lawyer as ingenious as Mr. Landis can invent a law which will apply only to dishonesty, and at the same time be octopus-tight. Otherwise, while we thank God and Mr. Roosevelt for fair and paternal despots such as Mr. Landis, we must at the same time, as honest liberals, condemn Mr. Landis' part in drawing up and supporting such a dangerous, undemocratic, wrong bill as the one under which he so successfully operates...
...warmed up the crowd by salting his remarks on Jews with jocular allusions to sex, always good for a laugh in Germany. Men guffawed, women flushed and giggled as he cried: "You can't make a Jew out of a German by getting him circumcised in a synagogue! . . . Thank God that, although there is yet no law to prevent race pollution, we have judges who send men to jail for defiling the proud German race! . . . The priests will marry even a Negro and a German woman, providing they are both Catholics, but after nine months what do we have...