Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover knows what ought to be done as well as Governor Smith, but he has not had opportunity to demonstrate his political capacity to get it done. Governor Smith has made his demonstration. ... I shall vote for Governor Smith as the man with the greatest demonstrated capacity for political leadership of any I have ever known. . . . He is one of the few great leaders of masses in all history who does not stoop to the tactics of the demagog .... No political leader in the world today, so far as I know-and I know most of them-has as much...
...trade. I conceive it to be his duty to talk to the American people and to talk to them in the plain ordinary, everyday language that everybody understands. In other words, give them the 'low-down.' Let them in on the ground floor, so that they will know what is going on in Washington...
...John, you know that your naval bases in all parts of the world enable you to use small ships of short cruising radius with deadly effect. We are not so well provided with bases, and so we must have larger ships of longer cruising radius. When you propose to limit large ships and leave small ones unlimited, you are proposing to limit only the ships we chiefly need, while leaving unlimited the ships you chiefly need...
...Safeguarding was introduced by the [Lloyd George] Coalition Government and now has been experimented with for seven years. It has been shown a success in some industries. Many of the members of our party, I know, feel it ought to be extended rapidly. But it is not wise in a democracy to go too far in front of public opinion. The British public is slow to make up its mind, but it is thinking hard. . . . Today even Labor wants to restrict the effect of unfair competition from abroad. Only the Liberals would repeal the Safeguarding Act entirely. The Government...
Salespersons in the Bat'a shops, from Singapore to Prague, are well primed with "House organ" facts about The Founder. They know that at the age of six he teased and teased until his shoemaker father whittled him out a tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three...