Word: amends
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...tortuous middle course: on one side are established bourgeois elements who still cast most of the ballots, and on the other the restive toilers who do not know what they want but are broadly out to soak the rich, raise the dole, nationalize railways and public utilities and probably amend the British North America Act, since this is apparently a brittle bulwark against change...
...months ago two cocky young Harvardrmen decided that Massachusetts, which is liberally endowed with giveaway country weeklies, had no good ones. To amend the situation they started the Brookline Citizen in Boston's swankest suburb, proceeded to give it away to some 18,000 Brooklinites. By last week at least one reader had looked the gift horse in in the mouth and found it not to his liking. On the Citizen's editorial page appeared this letter from one Peter McMurrer: Will you kindly refrain from having the Citizen deposited at my door and thus save...
...raising did there appear in writing the promise which let the tax bill slip so easily through the Senate. That promise was an Administration bargain with Senate Bonuseers. Explaining that his sole purpose was to put Majority Leader Robinson on record, Oklahoma's Thomas last week moved to amend the tax bill with what was virtually the greenback Bonus bill. Senator Robinson at once gave his solemn word that the Bonus would get prompt consideration in a separate bill early next session. With that promise in their pockets. Bonuseers could count on the prospect of next year...
...colleagues turn out to be Walt Whitmans, rejected by the people whom they would serve. For one suspects that they have forgotten (or perhaps they have never known) the hard truth, "Nothing is further from the common people than the corrupt desire--to be common people," if one may amend Mr. Santayana's dictum...
...veterans vote by voting for the Bonus, they wanted a share of the 3,500,000 A. F. of L. vote. Few Senators cared to fight the bill. Daniel Hastings of Delaware criticized it for what it did to labor minorities. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland proposed to amend the bill by making it illegal for anyone-not merely employers-to coerce an employe to join or not to join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented...