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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...phases of those topics which it touches." If so, let me point out some of the phases overlooked even by Mr. Whittlesey. First, we have that recent and remarkable statement by Mr. Hughes to this effect: "My conception of the Presidency differs absolutely from that of Mr. Wilson. I look upon the President as the administrative head of the government. He looks upon the President as primarily the political leader and lawmaker of the nation." And they say Mr. Hughes means what he says...
...must look then to the committee on naval affairs, headed by that famous "landlubber", William Alden Smith, who, in all seriousness, during the Titanic inquiry, asked such questions as "Did the boat go down by front or the bow?" and "Why didn't the passengers go into the water-tight bulkheads to keep from drowning?" for the continuance of our naval policy, which Mr. Whittlesey is afraid to leave to the party that put into law the naval bill--and to Boise Penrose and Joseph Fordney of "special interest" fame for the "fair and honest" tariff. And as to foreign...
...economic depression that existed before the war, the return that existed before the war, the return that will come when Europe will be able to provide for herself and will flood our country with her products. Those who can remember as far back as before the war, and look as far ahead as the declaring of peace, will not be so fooled by the present prosperity as to construe it the result of Democratic legislation...
...conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations that always acted precipitately would save themselves much intellectual effort. But rather than have a mere "decision by speculation" in the railroad strike, Mr. Paine prefers what we had, namely, , a hasty leap into "experience," a creation...
...good for us, who are still at peace to keep before ourselves the bitter likeness of war. Mr. Gallishaw, by his able writing, makes the picture easy to look...