Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this unemployment I have had some kind of share. ... It is the result of a step I took as my duty to the largest army of unemployed anywhere-the starving millions of India. ... I have come in search of a way out of the difficulty. ... I am powerless without the active co-operation of Lancashire and Englishmen" (i.e. in freeing India...
...been endeavoring to pursue contradictory policies in developing a situation where annual payments of large sums have to be made by debtor to creditor countries, while at the same time putting obstacles in the way of the movement of goods with which to make such payments. Financial remedies are powerless to restore economic prosperity unless there is a radical change in this policy...
Profesor Taussig advanced the idea that the United States could be prosperous whether employing a high or low tariff system. Dean Donham declared the government must either provide dole or jobs, with business powerless to help the present condition...
...business depression. Since among an educational people larger and larger taxes are being paid each year for the support of education, the question may well be asked whether it would not be better "to buy food with this money than to continue the expansion of a process that seems powerless to help us in time of need...
Governor Ely's treatment of the petitioning committee is a good civic lesson. Although he has proposed relief measures, a hostile legislature has rendered him powerless. Nevertheless, he received the committee civilly and intimated that precise information would be appreciated. The embarrassment of the petitioners at this reception was a little damning. Their demands were for immediate relief of the needy, yet they had no possible or practical suggestions...