Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, I believe there exists a greater menace to our democratic government by rule of constitutional law and majority decision when a wealthy and educated class begin to think that our democracy and our capitalism are so sage and secure from attack that they afford them the privilege of exemption from plain provisions of the law and the constitution. The test of democracy is not obedience to a law we all favor, it is our attitude to a law we may not like. Even if we don't like the 18th amendment, let's obey it. We asked the railroad...
...There is substantially no part of the country today, that cannot afford such elementary and secondary education, as it really desires; and to give Federal subventions to any part of the country to support education which it does not really desire would seem to be not only wasteful, but demoralizing. The plan of a department of education, alone with a member of the Cabinet at its head, would seem to me to be throwing education in politics. The place would almost inevitably be given to a politician not large enough in calibre for one of the greater offices...
...Comte de Bresson brought before Parliament a proposal to construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will...
...proposal to give M. P.'s free railway passes was attacked by the press. The liberal Star and the ultra-conservative Morning Post joined in heaping ridicule on the efforts of members to save themselves ?70,000. The Post observed: "If this country cannot afford to defend itself [referring to the abandonment (TIME, March 31) of the Singapore naval base scheme], it cannot afford to pay for the luxury of sending politicians to Parliament." Rejection of the bill was forecast...
...great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created, and they clearly do not realize what harm may result from a super-abundance of energy carelessly applied. So far the record of 1927 has been extremely good all in all, but the authorities cannot afford a recurrence of previous situations, and any tendency towards another riot will be sternly suppressed and the offenders treated with the utmost severity. 1927 could establish no more worthy tradition than that of avoiding all appearance of riots and of making large scale disturbances in the Oval henceforth entirely out of order...