Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refused (58 to 22) to accept him as a member because he and his friends had spent $785,000 to win the Republican nomination in the May 1926 primary.* To some Mr. Vare had been lynched, the Constitution shaken. To others the Senate had righteously purged itself of an evil influence...
...female M. P.'s after Minister of Unemployment James Henry ("Privy Seal Jim") Thomas had challengingly declared: "It is against the nation's interests for women to work for what they call 'pin money' and thus deprive other people of their legitimate work and livelihood. . . . Legislation cannot cure this evil. It is a question of moral responsibility...
First, there is a drink evil, and, where it is not in some way curbed, it becomes more and more dangerous as our civilization becomes more and more complicated...
Second, every civilized country is engaged in a struggle to curb the drink evil. Some are trying one method and some another. Some, like England, are restricting more and more the hours and reducing the number of places in which liquor may be sold. Others are placing heavy taxes on distilled liquor in order to make it too expensive for most people. Others are prohibiting the selling of liquor except in Government dispensaries. We, in this country, have tried all of these and are now engaged in an attempt to limit the sale of liquor to medicinal and sacramental purposes...
...announcement in today's CRIMSON of a minimum board charge of $7.50 in the new Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these...