Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Under the Root formula the U. S. could "naturally" quit the Court whenever its objection to an advisory opinion was overruled. Explained President Hoover last week: "The provisions free us from any entanglements in the diplomacy of other nations. We cannot be summoned before this Court. We can seek its services by agreement with other nations. These protocols permit our withdrawal from the Court at any time without reproach or ill-will." The World Court protocols were not welcome in the Senate at this short and crowded session because the parliamentary situation there was already complicated enough without them...
...increase in taxes . . . defeats the very purpose of these schemes. . . . Prosperity cannot be restored by raids on the public treasury. . . . Some of these schemes are ill-considered; some represent the desire of individuals to show they are more generous than the administration. . . . They are playing politics at the expense of human misery. The American people will not be misled by such tactics...
...cannot agree to reduce our period of military training much, owing to the varying character of our troops. Some of them require much training. Our mountaineers with hairy ears at first refuse to wear soldiers' boots and our fishermen cannot soon learn to sleep in iron barrack bedsteads because the steel springs tickle them. Therefore Japan cannot accept the amendment proposed...
...Poverty is not for the artist in America. They pay us, indeed, only too well. He is a failure who cannot have a butler and a motor and a villa at Palm Beach, where he is often permitted to mingle almost in equality with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than...
...countries accustomed to a strong, confident government there cannot be the faintest comprehension of this shameful capitulation by the highest German officials before a horde of half-grown brats...