Word: cures
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cure for the world's ills, according to Dr. John Mez, Washington correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung, may be found in the substitution of nationalism for internationalism. This is an opinion which more than one political writer of the day holds and it is an opinion which on its face is well founded. Nationalism, biologists now believe, is the result of environment and not of heredity, and since nationalism is the cause of war, the elimination, of war depends on altering the environment...
Boston has but one defense. Perhaps the New Republic's observers credit our neighbors with more intelligence than they really have. Perhaps they tolerate such conditions not through choice but through lack of an agency to cure them. Perhaps they elected Curley not because they like his record for "crooked" politics, but because they admire his personal traits of gameness and determination--the instinctive feeling of sympathy for the under dog, right or wrong. At any rate, it comes in the end to this: either Boston's citizens are all crooks, or they are fools. The New Republic decides...
Whether the Dyer Bill, or any man-made law, can cure an ill in the very nature of man, is a matter of doubt. When a negro has committed the crime of assault the usual cause of lynchings--the white man's instinct tells him that no penalty can be too severe, and an appeal to reason is futile. His natural resentment, fired by mob spirit and an underlying antagonism to the negro race, flares up uncontrolled. No matter how thoroughly he may agree, in a dispassionate mood, to every man's right of fair trial; no matter how well...
...arisen anywhere but in America. Perhaps you need to be secure in order to be an idealist, and it is American idealism, its immense good nature, its simplicity, its readiness to believe as well of others as of itself, which is at the back of both these efforts to cure the world of one its most invest- erate vices, or at least to assuage the worst of its ills. The weakness of the League of Nations is that its methods are too rigid for easy working and its powers too slight for its needs. So America, which begat the League...
...paying investments were the best remedy for the unemployment situation. "It is mathematically demonstrable", he said, "that it is better for the unemployed for you to invest your money in productive enterprise rather then to give it away. Good business and good business alone is the only permanent cure for unemployment...