Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary Hoover when he declares that the Federal government is legally powerless to settle the coal strike; but the very hopelessness of any settlement save through government interference, emphasizes and great gulf between the strict constructionists of 1789 and the Constitution as interpreted today. Jefferson would turn in his grave if he could see the complex machinery of the national government he strove to hold in check. More and more is it becoming natural for every sort of interest when in difficulty to turn to the government for a solution. The finger of paternalism extended far more readily at present...
...days to go, and only an insignificant fraction of the University's quota in the Louvain Library drive has been subscribed. The situation, as the Committee has stated, is grave. In all quarters the solicitors report unconcern. The only explanation is that the students do not yet understand its importance, or have not been made to feel the peculiar appropriateness of our share in raising the fund...
With four days of the week's campaign already past, the Committee considers the situation very grave. Since only a few of the collectors have turned in their receipts, however, the Committee hopes for considerable improvement by tonight. A third letter will be sent out to each collector today asking for an immediate report as to the result of his canvassing. The need for intensive work during the remaining days of the campaign will be stressed. Each collector must personally see every man in his territory before Thursday night...
...private hands. In 1920 the Canadian Government lost $70,000,000 in operating the roads; and in 1921 another huge deficit coupled with the $100,000,000 interest which had to be paid, cost the Dominion half its income. The attached shipping enterprise under government control has also caused grave losses, the capital lost in ships estimated at about one-half...
Japan is in the throes of violent popular demonstrations for universal manhood suffrage and a more democratic government. Whether an industrial, bourgeois bureaucracy will take the place left vacant by the crowned oligarchy of the Genro and the military party is uncertain. What is clear is that a grave crisis confronts the nation. If, as is more than possible, Japan has outgrown herself, if she holds a position in the world today out of all proportion to her size because of the feudal organization of her people; she will gradually decline with the increase of democracy. Her new leaders will...