Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...existence of such a feeling, even without good reason, causes a friction and sense of irritation which tends to produce attempts to evade such restriction, by ways which are extremely foreign to the old-time Harvard spirit of open and cordial relations between students and faculty...
Question: Resolved, that Americans should be permitted to buy foreign-built ships and to manage them under the American flag, and that no shipping subsidies should be granted...
DEBATE OF MARCH 28, 1888.Question: "Resolved, that Americans should be permitted to buy foreign built ships and to manage them under the American flag, and that no shipping subsidies should be granted...
...produce ships suitable for our foreign carrying trade; therefore they should be put on the free list: Wells. "Our Merchant Marine...
...present policy is "vicious, inequitable and unjust" in that while purporting to protect American shipping it really ensures to foreigners a monopoly of our foreign carrying trade, and protects them in the enjoyment of it to our own detriment: Report of Secretary of Treasury, 1887, xliv.; Kelley, "Question of Ships;" Wells, "Our Merchant Marine...