Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...reorganized or revitalized. No college man with red blood in him shuns competition with men who play the game squarely, and it is this type of man who is needed at Silver Bay this summer to maintain, strengthen, and give to others those high standards of thought, and action which Harvard has always exemplified. F. W. WILLETT, 1G.R
...torn down. Now that active assistance through the League has been blocked by failure of the Treaty, individual effort must be applied to the task of building up the stricken fields of enterprise. Individual capital, private organizations for reconstruction, must take up the task in the absence of Government action, by lending American resources to give that aid which the Government does not see fit to offer...
...peculiarly mean spirited attitude of the administration toward Wood during the war has led many persons to look upon him as a martyr. General Wood has never by a single word commented on the action of the administration in keeping him from the front. Even in his campaign speeches he has refused to indulge in criticism of the Democratic regime. He is the last man to pose as one who has suffered a wrong at the hands of his enemies or opponents. In other words, General Wood is not a martyr. He is not running for the presidential nomination...
Those who advocated such action on the grounds that Socialists admitted to the bar are "doubly dangerous for being learned in the law" apparently overlook the fact that the law, in its emphasis on constitutionality and precedent, tends above all to make its students more conservative than when they entered upon their legal course. But whether law makes its followers radical or reactionary is beside the point. The very idea of introducing a measure so repressive as that proposed by the New York law teachers is more un-American than any act countenanced by the Socialist party. The motives...
Even though many of our citizens not unnaturally desire freedom for Ireland, it is not within the province of the Senate to demand it. The Executive alone is charged with the recognition of new States. In the Senate, such action can only be considered as a piece of ill-timed meddling, which most nations would be quicker than Great Britain to resent...