Word: weaponization
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...York City, every newspaper in the metropolis except the Hearst sheets dedicated itself to the task of discrediting the city's administration. During the last four years they have gone to every length to persuade their readers that Hylanism must be eradicated. Investigations, exposes, ridicule--every journalistic weapon was employed. And yet, on Tuesday last, Mayor Hylan was re-elected by an astonishingly large plurality...
...contest indicates. The New York Times says: "Harvard showed what is undoubtedly the best forward passing attack in Eastern football. If there is any team which can produce more skillful preparation, deception and ability in this department Princeton is anxious to know about it. The Crimson's most effective weapon was a "flat" pass that was flung out short and to the side, almost like a lateral pass. Buell to Fitts was the order for his play, and they showed themselves to be a forward passing pair that takes rank with the best in football history...
...have not the right to strike. No argument can support them in their hold-up of the community. Yet is there not more to the question than this? Will we always be also to end strikes by reasserting this principle! Unfortunately the right to strike is the only legitimate weapon which the unions have: without it under the personal economic system, they are not only helpless they cannot exits. And no matter how much public opinion is in favor of taking away this weapon, doing so can never settle the labor problem. If must be replaced by some other means...
...historical method of studying human problems, that when the cause of an abuse has been explained the abuse itself is half condoned. Let us not suppose that because psychology of crowds is a fact its results are therefore right; or that, because organization and machinery furnish a powerful weapon for propagating ideas on the part of those who believe in them, the ideas themselves are therefore correct. The weapon may be used for an unjust or unwise movement as well as for one that is just and wise...
Although President Obregon may not realize it, he has given to this country the greatest weapon of influence in Mexico that it has yet had in its possession. By inculcating in these students American ideals and methods of though, these various colleges can exert a very wholesome, though somewhat long-distance control of affairs south of the border. It will take time for the effect to become evident, but if the embryo statesmen are given the proper attention and treatment, a gringo tinge will surely appear in the actions of the Mexican government before many years have passed...