Word: temperance
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After having enjoyed a vivid report of the international white slave trade, which caused more than one delegate to lose his temper, the Council of the League is confronted with the equally spectacular but more difficult task of dealing with the dicator of Poland...
...this & that as eagerly as anyone else, President Coolidge experienced a genuine burst of temper and indignation when, last week, President Pierson and the Chamber again called for a $400,000,000 tax cut. President Pierson said that a referendum of all the Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that...
...Blackshirts, as in the past 'see it through' must be our motto for the future. See it through with perfect discipline, absolute self-effacement. To perfect the instruments of the Fascist revolution, to multiply their strength, to temper their spirits for all future battles-these still are and ever will be the duties alike of leaders and followers...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...
...royal decree convoking a National Assembly. It was supposedly the realization of a promise, now almost a year late, made by Dictator Primo de Rivera, to restore parliamentary government to Spain; actually it does no more than centralize the legislature in the hands of Primo himself. Its temper is typical of the revolt against democracy; its obvious aims are to institute a more efficient government, perhaps to emulate the Platonic conception of the state, modified to meet modern needs; but it goes no further than to cloak constitutionality with the mantle of despotism...