Word: processions
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...intrigues of autocracy on the other, Hoover holds forth the League of Nations, maintaining that--"Regardless of what any of us may think should have been the provisions of either the League or the Treaty, we and the world should not be kept waiting longer for settlement. The whole process of peace has been necessarily one of compromises, and so long as the final form gives us freedom of action and room for constructive development of peace I believe it should be accepted." R. J. BURNS...
...President to pass this measure. It is not becoming in me to speak without respect of the President, but it is important to dispose of the treaty, and the President and Senate are the various means to do this. Not to settle this question means a delay in our process of adjustment...
This distribution of a billion dollars, more or less indiscriminately among three million ex-service men, would at best be a costly measure of doubtful value for soldier relief. But when the cost of the very process of distribution and the increased burden on our tax system are considered, it is out of the question. Before we increase our expenditures for the past, let us consider that our schools are suffering for teachers and that we are passing on to coming generations an enormous national debt. Rather than add needlessly to our already staggering bill...
Some mitigation will come through cooperative management, but effective management must always be more or less autocratic in its application, however the autocrat may be appointed. And we can never make the individual task expressive of the creative instinct by any modification of industrial process that can now be forseen. In short, the man can no longer live in his job. The best part of his life and strength will continue to go to processes almost utterly sterilized of expression of the human spirit...
Hence, provided that one has something to offer as security, it is not a difficult matter to borrow money, which becomes plentiful and correspondingly cheaper. By this process credit is widely extended and the currency becomes inflated. G. Y. SOSNOW...