Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 9). He could not, he said, permit the country to entertain the illusion that his administration was responsible for the present financial disorders. He reminded the Senators that loans had been contracted mainly for reconstruction work in the devastated regions, but that at no time did the Government resort to illegal financing. He reminded the Premier that the Expert' (Dawes) Plan had been made and accepted before he came into power and inferred that his [Herriot's] Government had been barren, contrary to the Premier's election promises, of constructive financial reforms. The ex-Premier concluded...
...Premier, through his Finance Minister, once more compromised. It was stated that the capital levy would be voluntary, but it was firmly hinted that, if the system were not successful, resort would be had to an obligatory levy. The "sop" to the extremes of the Government and Opposition parties seemed lost. Matters had gone so far that it was entirely possible that no fiscal project, no matter how reasonable, would be accepted by the Senate...
...Morain, Prefect of Police, was on the spot. Amid jeers, hoots and hisses; he lectured the students: "You are free to manifest your opinions, but you must not resort to acts of violence...
...people attend. He does not speak on religion. He touches only humorously on politics. He is not required to speak on real estate. However, he occasionally utters something like this : "We are nearer to two thirds of the people of the United States than any other winter resort of the Western Coast is to one third. We are closest to the richest two thirds. The reason that brought us here will bring increasing thousands...
...called the injustice of the nondenominational laws (religion laws forbidding the teaching of the Roman Catholic religion in Schools). They also advised Catholics to emulate the Radicals who "march in a body to the doors of city halls, prefectures and ministries, send protests, delegations and ultimatums to the authorities, resort to all sorts of proceedings, even to strikes, and besiege and harry the Government, which almost always ends by giving, in to their urgings...