Word: harming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointment of a commission of prominent citizens of both countries. This commission should have power to bring severe economic pressure to bear against France, which would result in the depreciation in the value of the franc. France must be brought to a realization of a mistake, which will harm her more than any other nation...
...seems to me that the best plan for the collection of the money in Germany is that which proposes to tax heavily the wealthy industrial leaders. These men profited by the war which did so much lasting harm to the entire world. Forseeing the decline of the value of the mark, they invested their profits in dollars, pounds, guilders, and other more stable monetary units. They not only did not suffer in the general financial break-down of Germany, but they also in a large measure escaped taxation. According to the German system of taxation, those who owe the largest...
...cancellation of interallied indebtedness." The affirmative case presented by Pittsburg consisted chiefly in the arguments that in the cancellation of the huge debts resting upon foreign governments lay the possibility of correcting the evils of Europe, that a refusal to cancel such debts would inflict political and economic harm upon this country, and finally, the United States is under moral obligations to cancel such debts as were incurred in the prosecution of the war against Germany...
...followers. He may denounce the people who were blown up in the Lusitania, and condone those who blow them up; may weaken, by hostile notion, aggressive designs on Germany after the declaration of war; may make wartime service to one's country a political liability; may do infinite harm, by harsh criticism and stubborn blocking, to both Democratic and Republican administrations alike; yet find himself, by almost unanimous choice and in monotonous regularity, reelected to the Senate. That is--if he is Robert La Follette...
...Will Hays, himself, said to a deputation from Massachusetts: "It would be better that the whole film industry should be sunk in the depths of the sea than that the delicate mechanism of the child's mind should be defiled." But, if the exhibition is once given, the harm is done. Legal procedure is costly of time and money, and in practical experience, procedure against immoral shows is found simply to advertise and spread the evil. Therefore experience has established the principle that these things must be regulated before exhibition...