Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proposal to return the railroads to government operation denies a fair trial to the private managers, who have recently received them in a depleted condition from the government. "Public ownership and development of all natural recources" smacks too much of paternalism to appeal to the average American mind. Attempt to retain the present excess profits, estate, and income taxes, augurs an intensification of these awkward and meddlesome methods of taxation. In order to attract the farmer into this scheme, the program prescribes for him a more flexible and accessible credit system. The proposals for legislative control of the meat packing...
...shows an attack on private enterprise. As it has been stated: "This league's legislative drive aims at nothing short of camouflaged communism." Here is an example of the sort of radical propaganda that is going on in the unions. This plan, which its exponents call "reconstructive", is an attempt to destroy the ideals and driving power upon which American industrial progress is built. It is an attempt to ensnare the public into a thoroughly Quixotic adventure...
...most optimistic estimates indicate that only a negligible fraction of the sum due from Germany can be obtained from duties on German exports and imports," he continued. "The further attempt to collect from importers a part of the price paid for German goods cannot possibly succeed. It cannot be fitted in to the general mechanism by which foreign trade is financed. It would put new and formidable obstacles in the way of the development of that export trade upon which Germany's ability to make Reparation payments depends...
...Bogota Treaty promises the South American republic twenty-five million dollars, together with certain other concessions as an indemnity for any injury which Colombia might have suffered through the loss of Panama and the building of the Panama canal. The attempt of the present Administration to obtain its immediate ratification recently failed and the Roosevelt senators have served notice on President Harding that they would not allow the treaty to go to vote until the people had a chance to read and hear the question debated in the senate...
...fact and how to treat it. The man who patronizes the cramming school loses that sense of the technique of investigation which only experience can give. In reviewing the course itself, however, the tutorial schools perform a commendable service. All too few of the instructors at Harvard attempt formally to convey to the student a view of their subject as a whole. The course without its seminar is as incomplete as the book without an index...