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...even bother to devise new epithets. He repeated that the bill was "an inflation measure, a high-cost-of-living measure, a food-shortage measure." Half an hour after his message reached the Hill, the House failed, as anticipated, to override his veto. Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld. The real fight...
...documents in the Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace has no single over-all survey of the public mind of Europe on Aug. 1, 1914. Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating. This was as true of Lenin, stunned that the German Social Democrats supported the war, as it was of Pareto, brooding over the "residues" of primitive impulses that lay beneath the conscious purposes of the masses...
...although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands. Beginning his veto message, the second he had written, by rehearsing the provisions of the Bonus Bill?cash for those who would receive less than $50, 20-year endowment insurance policies for those who, by the length of their service, would receive greater amounts?he continued...
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