Word: stand
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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President Wilson's telegram declaring it imperative that the Democratic party stand as the uncompromising supporter of the Versailles Treaty without reservations, shows that he fails to understand the present attitude of the American people. Nine months ago a referendum would undoubtedly have showed a majority in favor of passing the Treaty intact. But the Republicans chose to use their majority in the Senate to play partisan politics with the document of Versailles until it has become an issue between a treaty with some reservations or no treaty. And the majority of Americans support the former choice...
...number of gifts to the Endowment Fund were said to have been withheld owing to the presence of Mr. Laski on the University staff. On the other hand, several gifts are attributed directly to the admiration of the givers of the University's stand on behalf of academic freedom...
...demonstrated that the present German government is committed to a sound, middle ground policy, equally opposed either to Bolshovism or the restoration of the old, monarchical regime. What is still more important is that an overwhelming majority of the German people seem to be behind the government in its stand. As the Allies, in their ten or fifteen years of control, can easily crush any tendency toward militarism or anything else that might menace future peace, it seems exceedingly advisable for the world to assist the present German government's plans for the reestablishment of business activity, not for Germany...
...basic principle of Hoover's stand on taxation is the better distribution of wealth. In short, there can be no equality of opportunity if the ownership of the tools of production and service is to become the property of a narrow group of holders. As regards the question of a high income tax, Hoover claims that theoretically it is a direct transfer of capital to income in the hands of the state and thus might be criticized as stifling the increase of capital. Practically this would be answered if the State applied such receipts to the extinction of the national...
...mandate for the new nation of Armenia. This territory, according to the Covenant of the League of Nations, is to be provisionally recognized as an independent nation, "subject to the rendering of administrative advice and assistance by a mandatory, until such a time as it is able to stand alone...