Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...business suffers from too much government, it is itself to blame. It has not developed self-government as it can and should. In old efforts to secure special privileges and what it conceived to be more effective security, it has helped to concentrate power in the Federal Government. I oppose that because I oppose undue concentration and usurpation of power wherever manifest, and because I think Washington cannot frame economic laws that are sure to be sound or self-operating or that can fit the diversified conditions of this diversified country...
...weakens the political foundations on which its whole structure rests. It should therefore work to leave to the States what the States can do better or as well as the central government. The best political, and therefore the best economic, security business can have today is to keep political power diversified...
...closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator) Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen by Theodore Roosevelt as his political manager for the campaign of 1920. After Roosevelt's death, he managed General Wood's campaign for a time before he fell out with...
Both Crimson crews are considered fairly strong but since nothing at all is known of the power of the Yale outfits, dopesters on the races are at a complete loss...
...faculties, then," writes Professor Mussey, "will only forget their methods and devices, their endowments and equipment and paraphernalia, their hopes of prosperity and success, of riches and power, their hordes of so-called students indifferent and incompetent--if they will but forget all these and center, their thought on that youth of the starry eyes and the dream in his heart: if they will but see him as the child of this puzzling, fascinating, maddening world of yesterday and today, inheritor of its riches, its traditions, its burdens, its sins: will see him as a maker of the world...