Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political or sentimental one, and it seems likely that the new Mexican regime realizes this as well as the necessity for negotiating help from the United States. If this be true we see no reason why we should not be able to assist Mexico to escape from the revolutionary morass and go forward on firm ground. Mexico greatly needs foreign capital and we cannot afford that other foreign capital than ours should predominate. We can afford to provide capital for Mexican development and thereby serve both Mexico's welfare and our own. There need be no exploitation, in the evil...
...effusions on the subject of deported aliens. Has it occurred to the gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...