Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Volumes 49-50American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1913 |
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... farm laborers have entered the ranks of farm owners who now number more than 250,000 , while the unskilled group has gradually become more reliable . In the first years of the period under consideration , there was great alarm with ...
... farm laborers have entered the ranks of farm owners who now number more than 250,000 , while the unskilled group has gradually become more reliable . In the first years of the period under consideration , there was great alarm with ...
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... farm as the Negro farm owner and operator had no need to go to the city . The growth of the modern city , by its need for unskilled labor , urged Negroes to crowd within its borders . It allured , for here was work , more steady wages ...
... farm as the Negro farm owner and operator had no need to go to the city . The growth of the modern city , by its need for unskilled labor , urged Negroes to crowd within its borders . It allured , for here was work , more steady wages ...
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... farm lands are increasing in value year by year due to the increased knowledge of agriculture by the great bulk of ... farm owners is 21.3 per cent . It is also shown that 67 per cent of the Negro farmers of Virginia own their farms ...
... farm lands are increasing in value year by year due to the increased knowledge of agriculture by the great bulk of ... farm owners is 21.3 per cent . It is also shown that 67 per cent of the Negro farmers of Virginia own their farms ...
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... farm products , the accumulation of improved farm implements and improved stock . The outgrowth of this development is the great number of bank deposits in the banks of Tidewater , especially those located in the rural districts . I am ...
... farm products , the accumulation of improved farm implements and improved stock . The outgrowth of this development is the great number of bank deposits in the banks of Tidewater , especially those located in the rural districts . I am ...
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... farming implements , with which to cultivate a farm for himself the remaining two days . This system was quite advantageous to the " hand " providing he had a family large enough to do hoe - work upon his own farm while he worked four ...
... farming implements , with which to cultivate a farm for himself the remaining two days . This system was quite advantageous to the " hand " providing he had a family large enough to do hoe - work upon his own farm while he worked four ...
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Page 252 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 251 - Convention are on record as recognizing the claim of property to a special and defensive position in the Constitution. In the ratification of the Constitution, about three-fourths of the adult males failed to vote on the question, having abstained from the elections at which delegates to the state conventions were chosen, either on account of their indifference or their disfranchisement by property qualifications. The Constitution was ratified by a vote of probably not more than onesixth of the adult...
Page 18 - If the blind lead the blind they will both fall into the ditch...
Page 79 - ... merchant, firm, or corporation deals, or to discriminate against the same by depreciating the value of such products in the public mind, or by misrepresentation as to value or quality or by price inducement, or by unfair discrimination between buyers, or in any other manner whatsoever, except in cases where said goods do not carry any notice prohibiting such practice, and except in case of a receiver's sale, or a sale by a concern going out of business.
Page 251 - The movement for the Constitution of the United States was originated and carried through principally by four groups of personalty interests which had been adversely affected under the Articles of Confederation: money, public securities, manufactures, and trade and shipping.
Page 277 - ... so has likewise steadily advanced, especially in war on land, the distinction between the private individual belonging to a hostile country and the hostile country itself, with its men in arms. The principle has been more and more acknowledged that the unarmed citizen is to be spared in person, property, and honor as much as the exigencies of war will admit.
Page 251 - Constitution were taken by a small and active group of men immediately interested through their personal possessions in the outcome of their labors.
Page 210 - ... for the promotion and encouragement of intellectual, moral, or industrial education among the young of the more destitute portions of the Southern and Southwestern States of our Union ; my purpose being that the benefits intended shall be distributed among the entire population, without other distinction than their needs and the opportunities of usefulness to them.
Page 210 - We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men.
Page 269 - Defective nutrition stands in the forefront as the most important of all physical defects from which school children suffer.