Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nominal member of the Republican organization. In the event of defeat this might be serious to him. As regards national politics, the consequences might be even more important. His supporters believe that he could carry from six to ten northwestern states. In so doing he would probably plan to prevent a majority in the electoral college and throw the election into the House of Representatives. There his radical followers hold the balance of power, but it is dubious whether they could elect him. As possible alternatives, his participation might give the nomination to the Democrats on a silver dish?...
...Follette has not yet said he will be a candidate. His health, to mention only one consideration, might prevent his entering upon such an enterprise. Republican papers suggested that he might run out of resentment, by threatening his party to make it write his wishes into its platform...
Taken as a whole, the idea is one which staggers the imagination both by its simplicity and by its brilliant possibilities. But like most sudden visions, if draws in its wake a host of practical obstacles which may very well prevent its ultimate fulfillment. Captain Creed has outlined a scheme of enormous potentialities, but he has left to those who follow after the monumental labor of arranging the details; and many of these already shadow forth the suggestion that they will present difficulties of mountainous proportions. It is even conceivable that the principle itself will miscarry; the occasions on which...
...bill, which in its main features I heartily approve, I regret the impossibility of severing from it the exclusion provision, which in the light of existing law affects especially the Japanese. . . . We have had for many years an understanding with Japan by which the Japanese Government has voluntarily undertaken prevent the emigration of laborers to the United States and in view of this historic relation and of the feeling which inspired it, it would have been much better, in my judgment, and more effective in the actual control of immigration, if we had continued to invite that coöperation...
...bill has to do with a phase of railroad rate-making usually referred to by the words "Charge whatever the traffic will bear." This does not necessarily mean, as it is sometimes interpreted, to raise rates as high as possible. The object of the Gooding bill is to prevent the railroads from lowering certain rates. The problem came up in 1887 and was referred to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The existence of the Panama Canal has put a new twist in it. The essence of the problem is that under certain conditions it pays the railroads to give cheaper rates...