Word: gov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please this or that nation we consent to take international differences away* from the League of Nations and accustom the Gov ernment to consider that they can escape its judgment, how can we appeal to the Covenant of the League [to avert war] when, between 1935 and 1940, the critical hour, forecast? and awaited by Mussolini, strikes...
...statistics reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city men gov ern themselves their own way. While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which the result will be "the inevitable tyran nies and incompetence of Federal bureaucracies." Let the South strengthen...
...ready at all times and at all places to defend the policy of my Administrations in the handling of the state's business. " Manhattan newspapers headlined his report in characteristic fashion: The Democratic World: SMITH ANSWERS G. 0. P. CHARGE OF EXTRAVAGANCE "EX Democratic Times : GOV. SMITH SHOWS STATE HAS $13,965,345 SURPLUS; FOES PREDICTED DEFICIT. The Republican Herald Tribune: RUNNING COST OF STATE THIS YEAR TO RISE...
...dredge in Chesapeake Bay. He had been "shang-haied." Ill, he was put ashore. The Civil War was over before he recovered. . . . Last week the President signed an act of Congress ruling that Mr. Tracy's desertion was "involuntary." Henceforth he shall receive $50 monthly pension. ¶Said Gov. Alfred E. Smith to President Calvin Coolidge: "You can do anything you like here [New York] provided you don't get caught." Said President Coolidge to Governor Smith: "Well, I'll take a chance." Such, newsgatherers discovered, was the nub of the conversation when, last fortnight, Governor Smith...
Interest on gov't. obligations...