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"An amendment to the Constitution permitting the President of the United States to veto specific items of an appropriation bill.
In 1918 investigators of the U. S. Health Department decided that encephalitis is "a specific disease and must be caused by a specific living virus which has a specific affinity for the central nervous system." It is sui generis. The virus eludes discovery.
"I should be unwilling to participate in any political campaign at this time which would imperil the steady advance of the Progressive movement or diminish the number of true Progressives, nominally elected as Republicans and Democrats, who are now serving the public in the House, the Senate and in many...
There were only a few planks in each platform which did not have their counterparts in the other. The Republicans had planks on Economy, Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government, Repayment of Foreign Debts, Opposition to Government Entering Business, an Anti-Lynching Law. These have no specific treatment...
Comment. New York Herald-Tribune : "Claims for a specific nostrum . . . appear with such frequency . . . that France fears it to be another case of crying 'Wolf! Wolf!"'