Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...order to provide a field for aviators in peace time we must develop our commercial aviation. More extensive aerial mail routes and privately owned fast freight lines operated under government subsidy offer great possibilities. This is being done on a large scale on the Continent and there is no reason why we should let them get ahead of us. If we are to have control of the air we must have machines built in this country, and machines will not be manufactured unless there is a demand for them in commercial fields...
...general opinion among Americans seems to be that the League is something permanent; something that cannot be revoked, and for that reason they shun it; they consider it something terrible. Were the League this permanent affair that seems to be generally supposed, it truly would be well to hesitate before joining it. But it isn't. I don't aspire to be a politician, but in my travels I have received some impressions that I hope are correct; and these are that this League is not an irrevocable compact, but a means of getting together, of discussing and trying...
...reason is not far to seek. We have been getting our opera through foreign media--we have been subsidizing alien directors, conductors, and a thousand others to give us our music. They know their business, from their own viewpoint, at least. They know that once the fetish of opera sung in an uncomprehensible language is destroyed, their day is over...
...race is held it will be unique in the annals of intercollegiate athletic history, the only event at all resembling it being the air meet at Atlantic City last June. Such an innovation would undoubtedly be popular, is the opinion of Columbia Aero Club officers, if for no other reason than that the hazards of cross-country air racing puts this sport in a separate class from all other athletic activities...
Lack of faith on the part of a large section of the working class in the the motives of the capitalists, and especially in the so called public, is the underlying reason for the multitude of precipitous strikes. "We cannot delay, we cannot arbitrate; the public, because of its self-interests, will never see our point of view," was the plea of one of the leaders of the printers' strike in New York. In other words, a part of labor believes the public more interested in its own convenience and pocket-books than in seeing justice done. Such a pessimistic...