Word: enormouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"An enormous debt had been contracted, then standing at about $24,000,000,000, of which more than $7,000,000,000 was in short-time obligations without any provision for payment. Government bonds were far below par. The high Wartime taxes still burdened the people.
"By means of a protective tariff we have saved American agriculture, labor and industry from the menace of having their great home market destroyed through the dumping upon it of a flood of foreign products. . . . As a source of revenue the tariff surpassed all expectations in producing an annual return...
Honesty in Government. "There are those who would disregard all this for an undertaking to convince themselves and others that the chief issue of this campaign is honest government. In all my studies of political history, I cannot recall an Administration which was desirous of a dishonest and corrupt Government...
"Under our institutions, success is the rule and failure is the exception. We have no better example of this than the enormous progress which is being made by the Negro race. . . . They are doing a great work in the land and are entitled to the protection of the Constitution and...
Some of the beds which Prof. Leacock weeds are those wherein spring up 'the tares of Big Business Bunkum, Correspondence-School Quackery and kindred varieties of contemporary sophistry. He then invades the field of Animal Psychology. The subject of his observations, carried on under enormous difficulties, is that elusive...