Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...might solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...
...Ramsay. The Prime Minister dashed from the Imperial Conference at London to speak at Llandudno last week, won a vote of confidence on government policy. His speech was amazing. In some passages Mr. MacDonald flayed the very notion of putting a tariff wall around the Empire, called all tariffs "quack remedies"; but soon he was threatening reprisals?apparently tariff reprisals ?against nations which should raise their tariffs against Empire goods...
...When a man gets a serious illness, he doesn't call in a quack. He puts his faith in the old family physician. . . . The country is facing a crisis...
...played down by explicit order of Dictator Benito Mussolini. He wages a ceaseless campaign to keep the press clean, constructive and, of course, subservient. Every Fascist also knows that the only thing which keeps the Pope off the front page in Italy and puts him among the quack nostrum and miscellaneous columns is a recent, quasi-secret order from Il Duce. Moreover, of all recent papal utterances, the encyclical on Education was most explicitly the sort of thing Il Duce will not countenance. In effect the Supreme Pontiff laid down the rule that the three agencies which ought...