Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaching out of the great central power to brush the doorsteps of local communities, far removed geographically and politically from Washington, will be irritating in such States and communities, and will be a strain upon the bond of the National Union. It will produce variation in the enforcement of the law. There will be loose administration in spots all over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States...
...Millions of Germans await from you, Herr Reichspraesident, immediate intervention to rid the nation of these low criminal pests. Seizure of the criminals can be accomplished by speedy action for there ought to be enough German-blooded Germans in the Department of Justice to make that possible...
...with the utmost alarm. Articulate, he found phrases: "Financial feudalism . . . economis vassalage . . . financial octopus . . . Branch banking is a monster of such frightful mien." He quoted figures: "During the past 25 years, the number of branch banks has practically doubled each five years."* He classified, adroitly: "We still have the nation's financial business carried on by literally 57 varieties of banking institutions (48 different kinds of state banks, national banks, federal joint stock land banks, federal land banks, federal reserve banks, federal intermediate credit banks, postal savings system, mutual savings banks, trust companies, private banks...
...wish to disparage the usefulness of Broadway, Pennsylvania Avenue, or State Street, but it is from Main Street and its countryside that the creative energies of the nation must be replenished and restored...
...benefit of the favored few. The last Democratic president, who was elected in 1916 on the slogan. "He kept us out of the war" admitted in a speech at St. Louis, September, 1919, that a combination of manufacturers and big business men control the destinies of this nation. What foundation is there then for a belief that, should the Democratic Party be put into power, a Party which has now among its active supporters, John J. Raskob, of the General Motors; Owen D. Young of the General Electric; and William H. Woodin of the American Locomotive Company, big business will...