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...example the Committee on Economic Research at Harvard form the staff advisers for the sub-committee on foreign trade. An exhaustive study is being made to bring the information on foreign trade up to date and to present in such form that it will be useful when the particular plank of foreign trade is formulated by the Committee on Platforms at the convention. A similar method is followed by the other sub-committees...
...erects those which do serve this purpose--all through state intervention--is no more true of Liberal than of Socialist principles. On the other hand, that Liberalism believes in justice for all and in helping labor, being itself concerned with society as a whole--is as obvious a plank in the Conservative platform as could...
...creation of a Covenant for a League called for the programs of the League of Nations organizations of the various nations the program of the League to Enforce Peace figured very strongly and its essential features were incorporated into the document, Article XVI being part of the fifth plank of the Victory Program...
...thing in time of war, it is just as pernicious in time of peace. The character of candidates ought to be a consideration of importance, but it does not mean obliteration of parties. Of course, all platforms will be American. They will be composed of one big plank--Victory, And yet there are many ways of obtaining this national goal. Destroy the parties and you kill all criticism, the right kind of which is essential even in a crisis. If we have arrived at that state where all the voters of this country think alike, then away with all parties...
Though many of us have growled and grumbled at the new five-day vacation imposed on the national industries by Mr. Garfield, there was one plank in his platform which pleased the undergraduate. Monday seemed well on the way to join Sunday on the credit page of our lives. Two consecutive days of rest and ease made us more and more in favor of the Fuel Board. Week-end parties were planned for months in advance,--a five-day schedule appeared too good to be true. It was, and our day-dreams of this new Utopia have faded into oblivion...