Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice, etc. The U. S. Congress should not attempt to interfere with these land laws. Banking. The Federal Reserve system should be extended to the Philippines. Also, Federal land banks should be established to loan money to Filipino farmers at reasonable rates. They now pay from 12% to 30% interest. Moro Provinces. Mindanao and Sulu, inhabited by Mohammedans, should...
Winding up, the World editorial grew hot: "A more vulnerable nomination could hardly be conceived. It places Mr. Coolidge in the position of yielding to Senator Reed's bluster, and of indorsing Secretary Mellon's attempt to whitewash the Pepper-Vare primary. It throws an experienced and impartial Commissioner out of office to give his place to an untried corporation lawyer whose latest political effort is a poor recommendation...
...have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris at an early date...
...Hospital on Welfare Island, 219 men and 147 women- lean as gulls, most of them, some with red patches under their nostrils ("snowbirds," "sniffers") some with their forearms and thighs pockmarked with infected needle-sores; some sent to the narcotic ward by prison authorities, some self-committed in an attempt to get rid of their addiction-took the narcosan treatment. The solution is injected with a hypodermic syringe. The lipoids in narcosan neutralize toxic substances. The proteins stimulate new blood formation. This, at all events, is the theory of the way in which it works. The facts of its effect...
...Bible reading, singing of hymns and patriotic songs, scout groups, badges and slogans-and believes in them all. His prime recommendation, however, is short daily periods for discussing Ethics by the case system. He bravely admits that he cannot hold with "the pedagogic fashion of our time . . . against the attempt to influence anybody in any direction." In short he believes, as his final paper on Ethics for social workers shows, in human amelioration under prevailing political, social and economic systems. He is one whose greatest pleasure, short of playing in a stringed quartet, lies in discovering, exhibiting and nourishing warm...