Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contradicting figures and charts on war expense to this country which have been published by the National Council for the Prevention of War. The figures of the Council indicate that 85.8% of the Federal budget for 1924 will go for past and future wars. The Secretary declares that the correct figure for military expenditure is 13.5%. He went further, charging the Council with apparent " intent to deceive the public" and advising Americans to "examine into the character and patriotism of those who are promoting the pacifist campaign...
...government nothing, and should pay it nothing, except a fair rate of interest on government deposits. Certainly the British government, which needs funds more acutely than ours, should not think of profiteering at the expense of the Bank of England in any such way. Before a theoretically correct rediscount policy can be pursued by the Reserve Banks, such unjust and publicly harmful anomalies as this excessive "franchise tax" must be removed from the Reserve Act itself...
...Sweeping assertions are seldom valuable, and it would not be wholly correct to say that senators during the past two years have been really useful to the country in inverse ratio to the publicity they have received. But it would be true to say that publicity has not borne much relation to merit. This is due on the one hand to sensational tendencies in journalism, and on the other to the fact that readers are superficial. In earlier periods, newspapers were much more political in their character than at present. In those days, except for an occasional prize fight...
...costumes for "Beranger", which represent three periods, 1813, 1828, and 1848, have already been obtained, and the Dramatic Club has made every effort, not only to make these costumes correct for the first half of the nineteenth century, but also to give them a proper background with an accurate reproduction of the architecture of that period...
...Recognizing applied methods as correct, the consultation finds that the illness, judging by the course of treatment and the results of the examination, belongs to a category where complete restoration of health is possible...