Word: obvious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then again, it ought to be obvious that the United States will join some form of a league after the election no matter who is elected. Never before have the American people displayed such ignorance and gullibility; they don't realize that at least one, if not both of the great contending platforms were drawn up by some of the shrewdest legal minds in the country and that they were so worded that one could read into it (or out of it) anything he wished. The platforms were drafted on the idea that "the people will believe what they want...
Shall we learn nothing from experience? Can there be any doubt in our minds but that "the best we can hope for (from the Republican and Democratic parties) is a rotation of good intentions"? Most of them never carried out. It seems obvious that if we have any spark of knowledge of actual conditions. If we want to see Christian brotherhood brought about by a just economic and social order, which it not possible unler the present system if we want to see Justice, Liberty and Christian Brotherhood realized in our international, as in our personal relations, there...
With those advantages, the question naturally arises why the Government does not remove the obvious disadvantages to which I have alluded. At this moment there is pending in Congress a bill which I have drafted and which is intended to put the service upon an efficiency basis. In the first place, there is no reason for the complete disassociation of the diplomatic and consular sides of the foreign service. It would be useful for the service and useful to the individual if a secretary should be enabled for a time at least, to perform the duties of consul and vice...
...chief purpose of a scholarship is to enable students of limited means to obtain a college education. For this reason, the Price Greenleaf aid requires that recipients declare that without it it would be imposible for them to attend college. It is obvious that for the greatest good of all the majority of scholarships should be awarded on this basis...
...That it is worth while for the United States to trade extensively with Peru is obvious. Peru has the greatest mineral resources of any South American country. All that is needed is foreign capital to develop her mines. And it would be greatly to the advantage of the United States and of Peru if that capital could be American capital. For Peru is only a 10 days voyage from the States and all feelings of sympathy with the United States put aside, Peru would rather trade with a country that is nearer her than Europe...