Word: grabbing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Nobody knows what an "adequate" army is. How small an army we can maintain depends on how small an army we can induce each other nation to maintain. We can hardly achieve that end by this disingenuous grab at the principle of conscription, together with much talk of an altogether hypothetical "necessity...
...seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering...
...relations, laws, and effects of one subject. At least it is not the present system's fault if he has not. The second insures a breadth of work most valuable, perhaps, to those to whom it is most distasteful. The third prevents the blind, haphazard plunging into the University grab bag for the first four courses which come to hand...