Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar trade at the time the Institute was founded in 1927 fully justified drastic action. "Divorced from its illegalities the Institute offers certain opportunities for effecting desirable results," said the Judge. "In most of their activities, however, they [Institute members] have . . . gone much further than was necessary to accomplish their end. . . . The record has revealed a striking absence of effort on the defendants' part to approach their solution in a truly disinterested and constructive spirit. Too often they have disregarded the true facts and the interests of distributors and consumers. . . . They have contended that their guiding motive has been...
...more effective police power, and one that will be able to perform its duties towards public security with more success than have the municipal forces working independently. This plan is an excellent one, and with a competent person in charge, the united force should be able to accomplish much in the way of apprehending criminals. There are, however, other factors than incompetent police forces which must be eliminated before this plan will be able to accomplish all that it should...
...Governor's plan, although in itself admirable, is not likely to accomplish much in the way of stopping crime, unless the other obvious defects in the existing machinery for preventing and punishing crime are remedied. It is to be hoped that Mr. Ely's fight to clean out a bad mess will go beyond the reorganization of the police forces...
...backed him as a safe bet to preserve their property; and it will moreover so burden the state's budget that it may force a cut in other expenditures dear to a demagogue's heart. The second choice will involve an admission, tacit or articulate, that he cannot accomplish what he set out to do, not even within a reasonable distance of success. I have no doubt that this bit of brazenness on Hitler's part will result in his having his paddles slapped by the automobile, steel, and coal industries, for such threats to one of them are threats...
...unfair competition, when competition is the issue. Perhaps it can give labour an advisory power, when labour ownership and control is the issue. But anyone who knows the history of the Labour Party in England and the Social Democrats in Germany will give very small odds that it can accomplish even these things, in the face of a capitalist emergency which cannot afford the concessions which it might have afforded in its healthier days...