Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yale has just been "reorganized." Unconsciously, the reorganizing was done by New York alumni, business men rather than scholars. The New York influence was paramount. The men who were forced to take this action by the inaction of the academic powers at New Haven were New Yorkers almost without exception. It seemed, all of a sudden, as if that "national" university had its main effectives in New York, just as Harvard had them in Boston. The thing is natural enough but it showed a real hint of parochialism which the New Yorkers themselves would have been the first to deplore...
...when political issues chiefly occupied the minds of American voters. Government until recent years was concerned chiefly with the use of various police powers. The industrial and economic life of the country was supposed to be a thing quite apart from its political life. But now economic problems are paramount issues. And American major parties are not made to discuss paramount issues. Hence upon economic issues both parties try to fool the voters; platforms are built not to state issues clearly but to confuse them...
Today the great test begins. After the routine work has been completed, the Dantzig and the Polish-Lithuanian affairs will be discussed. Arrangements for the coming financial conference will be made. But what is paramount is the fact that numerous recommendations for amendments of the covenant will be considered. Most of these have been made by the smaller nations who desire to limit the power of the council and to give more to the assembly. Insomuch as the large nations control the council, they wish to concentrate the power of the League here. Thus a dispute looms up between...
...whole "issue" of the Leagues of Nations is conclusive evidence of the cheapness of this political "smoke and gas." Apparently, it never occurs to the average supporter of Harding or Cox that the league is not the paramount issue of the day. He knows that the possibility of war is what makes a league--some kind of a league--necessary but does the question ever rise in his mind as to what causes war? Does anybody with sense suppose that the phrase "a war to end war" was anything but mob psychology practically applied? Is "democracy" as "safe...
Whether the course be justified or no, it seems evident that the majority of the voters in this country will take the cost of living to be the paramount issue of the November elections. The average man is a selfish beast, and holds his material comfort at home above the welfare of his more distant neighbors. Self-interest is a natural instinct, and by more than one token is it apparent that the hopes of business prosperity, more nearly equable tariff adjustments, trade stimulation and national economy which the election of a Republican ticket seems to insure, will prevail over...