Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slowly dawned on the audience that in an indirect, personal but shrewdly purposeful way he was making it appear that the Democratic Nominee, because of his specific proposals in connection with water power, farm relief, prohibition and the tariff, stood in general for "a European philosophy . . ., state socialism," while he, the Republican, stood for "the American system of rugged individualism . . . diametrically opposed." It was a shrewd thing to try to do in the financial capital of the U. S. But it was a difficult speech to grasp. It seemed to overshoot the mark...
...Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the Government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts...
...national resources without complete protection to the public interest. I have already stated that where the Government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation, of irrigation, of scientific research or national defense, or in pioneering a new art, it will at times necessarily produce power or commodities as a byproduct. But they must be a by-product of the major purpose, not the major purpose itself...
...Government is something greater than an efficiently administered business corporation with a multitude of inactive shareholders. We support Governor Smith above all because of his power to reverse the present trend toward political apathy and arouse in the citizens of the United States an active, intelligent interest and participation in their Government...
Senator Borah's answer, in far-away-Tennessee and Kentucky, was to point at Nominee Robinson as an enemy of the protective tariff and to distinguish a conflict between Nominee Smith's and Nominee Robinson's pre-campaign attitudes on water power...