Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deflation of price had been prompt and rigid a year ago, and if the people had been warned, and had accepted the warning, that there would be a general decline of prizes, the present condition would not exist. Last year, whether intentionally or not, the farmers of the country were led to expect that the prices which were in effect at that time would continue through the present year, and as a result, they paid prices for their labor and material which would allow them a profit only if these pirces did continue. Now, however, the nations of Europe cannot...
...parts of the world are interdependent. During the war, Europe suffered more than we did, and for a long time we profited by it. Now, however, the poverty and bankruptcy in Europe has begun to affect us adversely, and we must make the best of conditions as they exist...
...concatenation of events following the war it has been impressed vividly upon us all, that our future policy must take into consideration all nations--that we cannot successfully exist at peace with ourselves and exclude the sufferings of other nations by extrinsically ignoring them...
...operating. The recollection of their indebtedness to American generosity will do more than anything else in our power to dispel the horrid shadow of war and give these wretched children a real faith in humanity, and a conviction that fellowship among nations is not fiction. Even though many might exist without our help, is it not worth the cost to start this coming generation in the world with a Christian, not a barbaric outlook? No wonder that Mr. Hoover said that he would rather have the American flag implanted in the hearts of these children than over any citadel...
...welfare. But unfortunately there exiate in the United States no permanent system of disinterested administration. Governmental control is only too apt to mean but one more card in the hands of these who make politics, and not business, their study; and as long as such a condition continues to exist, just so long must any trend toward governmental control be considered unwise...