Word: herald
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...increase is unnecessary. - (a) Navy is already considerable: Rep. Sec. of Navy for 1894, p. 6. - (b) More ships are authorized: Boston Herald, Mar. 5, 1895. - (c) No analogy with European navies - (1) Small commerce. - (2) No colonies. - (3) Isolation. - (d) War is not probable. - (1) No strong neighbors. - (2) European nations desire peace with U. S. - (w) Respect our neutrality. - (x) War with U. S. would precipitate general European war. - (y) Great foreign investments in U. S. - (z) Arbitration probable...
...plans not involving the elimination of private profits have failed to diminish waterially the evils of the liquor traffic. - (a) State prohibition does not prohibit: W. B. Weeden, Working of Prohibition, 56-93; Boston Herald, Jan. 24, '95. - (b) Prohibition by local option merely changes the place of sale. - (1) It does not effectively do away with the evils of liquor consumption. - (c) High license has also failed to diminish the evils: W. J. McFarland, Facts, not Opinions, 15-17. - (1) It simply makes a few dealers more greedy for large sales: E. L. Fanshawe, as above...
...annual dinner of the Boston Press Club was held in the United States Hotel last evening. A small number of Harvard men were invited. One of the after dinner speeches was given by H. C. Lakin L. S., the Harvard correspondent for the Boston Herald. He gave a straight-forward, lively speech on the work of college men who correspond for the Boston and New York dailies, and also on the characteristics of the college papers. His speech was well received...
Alexander Moffat in an article on football in the Boston Herald of yesterday urges the entire abolishment of momentum plays, and also of the present method of signalling a fair catch...
...Public sentiment is opposed to it. (a) It is hasty. - (1) Not adequately considered in committee. - (2) Rushed through to show that the party can enact constructive legislation: Transcript, Dec. 17. - (b) Only one banker out of 50 who wrote to Hon. Wm. Springer approves it: Herald, Dec. 18. - (c) It is a weak and impolitic scheme. - (1) Tends to make depreciated paper redundant. - (2) Revives "wildcat" state banks. - (3) Divorces the government and bankings - (d) Several substitutes are offered. - (1) Eckels's plan. - (2) Baltimore plan. - (3) Senate Bill. - (4) Walker's Bill. - (e) Leading papers utterly opposed...