Word: waves
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...lesson of the nation-wide price-cutting wave is that under-consumption is as objective in reducing prices as is greater production. The Kansas City experiment reveals another method of bringing values back to normal. As yet the scheme has not been applied in other parts of the country. The plan has been to use Kansas City for an object-lesson, which, if heeded, will serve to prevent an equally dangerous situation from becoming acute in other cities. The warning may be enough--if not, legislation such as has proved so successful in Kansas City may have to be enforced...
Again, we have got to look ahead to the question of immigration after peace is sufficiently declared. We want and are going to have the right kind of immigration. We do not want the country filled with the forces of destruction. We do not want a red wave rolling in here which stands for nothing that we stand for but already has shown the absolute impracticability and futility of its views. Let us look our immigrants over a little and see that they are the right kind of men and women, and when they come, let us have a more...
...wave of intolerance that is sweeping the country, many of the measures proposed to extirpate Red propaganda are so extreme as to be ridiculous. On the heels of the expulsion of the lawfully constituted Socialist party from the New York Assembly comes the notice in yesterday's "Times" that "a movement to bar Socialists from the law schools of New York State and to withhold diplomas from those Socialists now students in the schools was begun yesterday at the annual meeting of the New York State Association of Legal Instructors, consisting of teachers from the nine law schools...
...commenting on the wave of extravagance sweeping over the world, he said the time is coming when Europe and America must foot the bill. Both, he declared, have spent not only their accumulated wealth, but their present-day finances and the money they anticipate for years to come...
...time when Socialists are suspended from the New York assembly and the term "Red" so often applied in hit-or-miss fashion to those who venture to voice their ideas, it is satisfactory to note that this wave of general hysteria and intolerance has not reached Boston artistic circles and that there is no agitation to prevent Kreisler's concert in Symphony Hall tomorrow. The wave of feeling against him which spread over the country during the fall was a disgrace to the intelligence of the American people. Even more ridiculous were the arguments which this controversy called forth...