Word: according
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission considers . . . enforcement in the country as a whole unsatisfactory. . . . The Commission by a large majority does not favor repeal of the 18th Amendment. . . . I am in accord with this view. I am in unity with the spirit of the report in seeking constructive steps to advance the national ideal of eradication of the social and economic and political evils of the [liquor] traffic . . . at the same time facing with an open mind the difficulties which have arisen under this experiment...
...case mildly. Of the eleven members of the commission, ten subscribe to the general recommendations, which are dry in effect and in implication. But six members, in the individual opinions which all had the privilege of setting forth, strike a note not at all in accord with the conclusions of the committee as a whole. Two of them advocate absolute repeal, and the four others would have the Amendment revised to lodge with Congress the power to (1) continue the present system of national prohibition, or (2) to remit the matter in whole or in part to the States...
...stimulation of individual initiative which this plan is to encourage is something to be sought after by all colleges. The student who learns something of his own accord retains his knowledge much longer and has a much clearer idea of the subject. In the training of the mind this voluntary learning has a definite advantage since the student has to choose his own subjects for study and must then exercise judgment...
...Abolition of the Franco-Belgian military accord of 1920 is vitally important in forwarding the cause of international disarmament and world peace. While the accord contains no secret clause, there is danger that Belgium . . . might eventually be entangled in armed conflict against her will, consequent upon events happening either along the Polish or Italian frontiers...
...Another favorite bludgeon is a fire-extinguisher, often applied to students who "freeze" the controls. According to a legend popular among airmen, Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd had to use similar tactics when he discovered that brain-fogged Pilot Bert Acosta was stubbornly steering a course "back to America" after they had reached the coast of France. Biographer Charles J. V. Murphy (Struggle: The Life of Commander Byrd) delicately pictures Acosta collapsing of his own accord, while Byrd stands reluctantly brandishing a flashlight as a bludgeon...