Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Williamson Bill. To accomplish this purpose a bill was last week offered in the House by Representative William Williamson, chairman of the Committee on Executive Expenditures. In the Senate Chairman Norris of the Judiciary Committee promised "early and careful" consideration of the question. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, generally applauded the prospect of the transfer and most of their friends in Congress promised action...
...policy of "improvement via competition." It is unfortunate that one of the country's most enviable short-line franchises- New York-to-Boston-could find no better use in the eyes of I.C.C. than to be hooked up to another short-line, of minor importance, which would accomplish a direct connection between...
...World Peace is a self-evident fact, but the means to this end are not quite as apparent. Granted that the colleges should do all within their power to further such a movement, still there is no reason to believe that education as it is today, does not accomplish this aim. A student of economy who learns that seventy-two cents out of every dollar paid in taxes goes to maintain armament of one kind or another, or who learns of the enormous possibilities of applying science to industries, will be the first to urge a lasting peace. Although...
What is to be accomplished by repealing the supplementary act while leaving the first one in full force? About the only thing which it could possibly accomplish would be to make it easier for bootleggers. It might make liquor more abundant and cheap, but it would still be bootleg liquor. If the proposed repeal had been drafted by the King of the Bootleggers himself, it could scarcely have been more to his liking. If the state should repeal its law forbidding manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquor, state and local police would not feel like interfering with illicit stills, however...
...There never has been greater zeal and activity . . . great handicaps. . . . When Congress is ready to consider and adopt legislation to carry out the Administration's recommendations for more adequate law enforcement machinery, those whose duty it is to enforce the law will be able to accomplish more. . . . Determined and unceasing pressure from the President for enforcement. . . . Such deficiencies as exist . . . are not due to lack of will . . . either at the top or the bottom...