Word: stops
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...directly contrary to America's attitude during the war, and to the present plan of the League of Nations for disarmament. The opinion of other nations is plainly shown in Japan's refusal to reduce her armament until such time as the United States sees fit to stop increasing its own. Under present conditions, we are but leading the world back to the old military basis which we have just been struggling to undermine...
...dreadnought, owing to the perfection of submarine and aerial development, is no longer the invulnerable leviathan that once it was. Money expended on a big ship without providing it with the neccssary defensive air and water compartments is money thrown away. It would be better, under present conditions, to stop wasting money on thirty million dollar ships, and round out the aeroplane and submarine fleets; a little of the new, and not so much of the near-obsolete should be given attention. Such a course would not only be economical, but it would also save America from the stigma...
...that the modern state existed solely because of the existence of classes and that there could be no real democracy until classes ceased to exist. She called upon the capitalists, who control the people today, to admit frankly that we have no democracy and upon the Socialist Party to stop deceiving the people by showing the possibilities of Parliamentary action, which, she claimed, was obviously impossible because capitalists and present conditions were against it. The communists were followers of Karl Marx in desiring through direct action the dictatorship of the proletariat, which, though not a true democracy...
Events may turn out better than the pessimists expect. It is reported that President Wilson will ask that the primary consideration be the financial problem; this will suit almost everyone. Another report is that Chairman Johnson of the Immigration Committee favors legislation which shall put a temporary stop to all immigration; nothing could satisfy better Mr. Gompers and his followers. The net result of this course of action would please the majority...
...midnight show, to be known as "The Century Midnight Revue," was produced stop the Century Theatre in New York last Monday night. The present offering will be sent on tour with Eddie Cantor as its principal star