Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCumber Tariff. "I charge the Republican Party with this corruption in office. I charge it also with favoritism in legislation. In the passage of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act, imposing the highest rates and duties in the tariff history of the Nation, there was an unblushing return to the evil days of rewarding party support and political contributions with legislative favors. . . . For every dollar that this statute has drawn into the treasury of the United States it has diverted five from the pocket of the consumer into the pockets of the favored...
...This platform pledges a remedy for the injunction evil...
Repairing to Italy, Representative Everett visited Venice, city of gondolas. There?who knows whether by good or evil chance??a whisperer leaned to the legislator's ear, murmuring: "Visit Passagno. There you will find a much finer statue of Washington than the one which you seek...
...collection of Persian objets d'art that is indubitably the finest in the world, both in the number and the quality of the pieces. Golden daggers from Turkestan, jade seals, incense-burners embellished with rubies, pots set with a thousand emeralds, and blades from Damascus curved like evil moons−the treasure of a fairy-tale empire that came to an end, as is the way with fairy tales−and empires...
...such an extent has grown the evil of demagoguery among politicians that the real facts and the economic principles involved in questions of national policy are continually obscured by a dense and putrid fog of demagogic argument designed simply to forward selfish personal, political and group interests...