Word: commendations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enforcement, however, appears to rest entirely with the Republican police Commissioner, the Republican Licensing Board, the Republican District Attorney and the Republican judges, who have been saddled on the city, and continue to pour illicit beverages down the unwilling throats of the populace. It would probably be immoral to commend all these Republican functionaries for their generosity in allowing Democratic Boston to be supplied; it is tolerably safe to condemn their iniquity in foisting the Republican bootleggers upon a reluctant Democracy...
World Court?"Pending before the Senate is a proposal that this Government give its support to the Permanent Court of International Justice. . . . The Court is merely a convenient instrument of adjustment to which we could go, but to which we could not be brought. ... I, therefore, commend it to the favorable consideration of the Senate with the proposed reservations clearly indicating our refusal to adhere to the League of Nations...
...possible . . . to make a large reduction in the taxes of the people. . . . This is treated at greater length in the budget message, and a proposed plan has been presented in detail in a statement by the Secretary of the Treasury, which has my unqualified approval. I specially commend a decrease on earned incomes and further abolition of admission, message and nuisance taxes. . . . Being opposed to war taxes in time of peace, I am not in favor of excess profits taxes. . . . For seven years the people have borne with uncomplaining courage the tremendous burden of national and local taxation...
...Union in London was holding one of its regular meetings. The "Grand Old Man of Nonconformity"?John Clifford (87)?was present. He was pro- posing a vote of sympathy for the union's secretary, Mr. De Shakespere, soon to undergo a delicate operation on the eyes. "I commend my friend to God," said John Clifford. He stopped, paled, collapsed, almost instantly died...
When there is so much to commend, it is perhaps captious to find anything to criticize. But come complaints there have been which as such deserve attention even if the grounds on which they are based are invalid. Some undergraduates have found fault with the arrangement by which Graduate School one-seat applicants have been seated next to the cheering section and in a better location than the majority of undergraduates. Such an objection is perfectly natural on the part of undergraduates who feel that the center of the field should be reserved for those who are naturally most interested...