Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...search. So you will know why when you hear of more and more temporary committees, commissions, conferences, researches?that they are not for Executive action but are one of the sound processes for the search, production and distribution of the truth. . . . The people will take care of progress if the Government can put the signs on the road...
...told them what he expected of them. Afterward in a voice edged with emotion the President read a statement to the press which began: "I am sure the whole nation bids godspeed to the American delegation . . ." and ended: "... I hope the people of our country will cooperate in the progress of the conference by patience, encouragement and freedom from criticism. . . . We go to London in a fine atmosphere of international good-will...
...hard-hitting debate was in progress in the House of Representatives one day last week over the killing of three smugglers on the rumrunner Black Duck...
...interior of Haiti and were put down, the natives say, by unnecessarily brutal methods. A corvee system was instituted to build roads, but this administration, too, brought bitter complaint. The fact that much of the American personnel spoke no French and most of the natives no English naturally impeded progress and cooperation...
...Harvard President's annual report of the progress of affairs at Cambridge has come to assume the importance commonly attached to state papers like the President's message to Congress or a governor's inaugural address. Not only do the Boston newspapers carry a complete digest of it and many long quotations from it, but the leading journals of New York and other cities also treat it as news of national significance. And such it is, for Harvard is in most respects the country's leading university, and what is done in Cambridge today may be done in a hundred...