Word: tools
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...address before the Graduate Schools' Society last evening, President Eliot discussed "The Patriot's Motives for Action in the Coming Election." He attacked the policies of the Republican party and ridiculed Senator Harding's position, saying that he was a tool in the hands of the Senate oligarchy and had no mind or policy...
...presided at the meeting and introduced as the first speaker Demarest Lloyd, president of the Loyal Coalition of Boston. Mr. Lloyd outlined some of the reasons for action against the vicious influences at work today in American politics, particularly those endeavoring to use the United States as a tool to meddle in the domestic affairs of Great Britain for the furthering of the movement for an "Irish Republic" in the heart of that Empire...
Anyone with half an eye can see beneath the pretense of love for Irish liberty to the selfish political motives that prompted these actions. Not Ireland, but the Irish vote is their inspiration. The sooner the Irish-Americans realize that their cause is being made but the tool for Congressional politics and personal aggrandizement the better. America must realize that meddlesome interference by a few vote-seeking politicians is not going to settle the Irish question; it will only make matters worse. The Irish problem must be settled by the Irish and the English. If the legislators at Washington refuse...
...disorder has calmed down. Furthermore, the main cause of Bolshevism is economic distress, and the lifting of the blockade will remove that cause. A people which does not lack the essentials of life tends toward conservation. In the second place, the new policy will remove the most effective tool which the Red leaders have used to prevent a general uprising against their regime. From now on the advocates of the economic system at present existing in Russia will not be able to explain the lack of prosperity by the blockade. The people will see that the distress...