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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returns of one year alone, also exhorted his hearers to continue the practice of economy. "Extravagance," said he, "may bring momentary pleasure and apparent benefit, but it creates a condition which is bound to affect the future adversely. ... I do not hesitate to say that one of the greatest safeguards of this nation, financially, socially and morally, lies in constructive economy in government...
...interest you to know our own great journalist S. S. McClure is in Italy for the purpose of making a thorough study of the present government. He said to me: "The civilization which is now being developed in Italy is the greatest ever conceived in the mind of man." He is personally going to investigate the "Italian Siberia." He will go to these penal islands. Mrs. Jackson Flemming, the popular current history lecturer, said in my drawing-room: "The government Mussolini is developing is so modern we Americans are not able to understand it; we are not educated...
Scotch whiskey appeared in greatest demand. Though no figures on sales were given out, it was estimated that in Windsor alone about $6,500 worth of spirituous liquors were purchased, with hundreds in line when the government stores closed. Chairman Hanna admitted that there had been a "congestion," but denied that there had been a "rush...
...flood has submerged 20,000 square miles, it would have submerged 30,000 had levees not restricted its spread. General Jadwin also attacked the popular theory that reforestation would prevent future floods; he pointed out that in 1844, when the valley was thickly forested, it experienced one of the greatest floods of its history...
...Butler rushed north from Shanghai, landed two troop ships carrying 1,900 U. S. marines at Tientsin, and personally hurried up to confer with Mr. MacMurray at Peking. Meanwhile the British and French were rushing troops to protect their legations at Peking, and observers thought that only the very greatest tenacity on the part of U. S. President Coolidge would prevent the U. S. Administration from being swept into the policy long advocated by Minister MacMurray: armed intervention cooperating with Great Britain and other Great Powers...