Word: panacea
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...extremely dubious. They will form an active and vociferous minority. They will cause trouble because the "regular" Republicans lack a working majority in the Senate, and because the Democrats will probably resort to political sabotage to increase their chances in the next election. But the insurgents have no panacea to offer the farmer. Nor is their voting power equal to their vocal power...
There is absolutely no legislative panacea for the distress now fairly common among American grain farmers, since any artificial upward manipulation of wheat prices will in the long run simply increase foreign production and domestic stocks, and ultimately force prices lower...
...wheat sickness, an ill for which there is no panacea...
Another legislative panacea for the conduct of the banking business went glimmering with the repeal by the State Government of Oklahoma of its previous law requiring banks organized under the laws of that state to create a fund which would permit all banks to guarantee each other's deposits. All banks contributed to the fund, and when a bank failed the fund was used to pay off all its depositors in full. This plan largely originated with Senator Owen; it has been urged for adoption by banks in other states, too. Bank failures were to be rendered forever harmless...
...subway. I never dreamed there was a place where a man could put out people's eyes, smash them in the jaw, knock them down, kick them about and throttle them to his heart's content without anybody minding it in the least. It is a spiritual panacea, absolutely...