Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century IssuesCompanion volume to "American forum - speeches on historic issues, 1788-1900". American speeches on twentieth-century issues. |
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Fifty years ago work was still mainly done by hand , and every boy could learn a trade and every boy could master the tools and go to work . That is why there were no tramps . In fifty years that simple tool has become a mammoth machine ...
Fifty years ago work was still mainly done by hand , and every boy could learn a trade and every boy could master the tools and go to work . That is why there were no tramps . In fifty years that simple tool has become a mammoth machine ...
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And we intend to put these things into the hands of society . With all the handicaps of capitalist loyalties , society has done a pretty fair job with schools , roads , waterworks and the like , Consumers ' cooperatives have suc ...
And we intend to put these things into the hands of society . With all the handicaps of capitalist loyalties , society has done a pretty fair job with schools , roads , waterworks and the like , Consumers ' cooperatives have suc ...
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In his famous metaphor of the hand he accepted social segregation as a fact to be lived with : " In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers , yet one ...
In his famous metaphor of the hand he accepted social segregation as a fact to be lived with : " In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers , yet one ...
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Contents
THE PROGRESSIVE ERA | 3 |
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS DEBATE | 51 |
MODERNISM VS FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION | 87 |
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| Title | Contemporary Forum: American Speeches on Twentieth-century Issues |
| Author | Ernest J. Wrage |
| Editors | Ernest J. Wrage, Barnet Baskerville |
| Publisher | Harper, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 376 pages |
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