Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this goal that the present tendencies are merging--for Professor Dewey himself declares that much progress has been made in the last quarter of a century. Yet rather than wait for the slow if inevitable triumph of liberalism and its methods over conservative reactionaries it is conceivably possible to aid its progress by attacking those causes of illiberalism which have been identified...
Senator Harreld's change to the negative side (he declared that he had thought he was voting "Aye" to support the veto) had prevented the bill from passing with a two-thirds vote. The President's veto had been sustained with the aid of more Democrats than Republicans. This was partly explained by the fact that many Democrats come from southern states which have few Civil War (Union) veterans. It was natural enough to find the Republican insurgents against the President. But where were the regulars-Brandegee, Elkins, Fess, Jones of Washington, McKinley, McNary, Moses, Shortridge, Spencer, Watson...
...Americans who favor the measure do so not from any love of this bill in itself, but because they want attention and aid for disabled veterans and decline to wait another six years for a saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly...
They show us a girl who must decide between staying at home, seeking an operatic career in Paris, and marrying either for money or love. By the aid of that dear old piece of hokum--a crystal globe--they take their heroine through ten breath-taking scenes and several compromising situations to show her the probable results of her different choices. Towards the end, they evidently run out of scenery and words, for they fail to photograph her after she has married the hero. We think this might have been the worst solution of all, although the playwrights, not sharing...
Asked if he were in sympathy with the Grand Duke Nicholas who is trying for a restoration of the Romanovs in Russia, the Prince replied: "No! The Duke's ambitions are political; my ambitions are humanitarian-the aid of the distressed Russians...