Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another deadlock seems to have been reached in the Government's warfare on the Reds. The public is treated to the spectacle of one executive department charging another with disloyalty and with blocking its efforts to rid the country of suspected aliens...
...necessity ceases. We want to get back into our normal form of government and get out of our immense national expenditures. We are now thinking of government expenses in terms of billions instead of millions; we should think in terms of millions rather than billions. We want to get rid of our army of unemployed; get back to an economical system of administration. We should build up a budget system, to be prepared by or under the direction of the President, which contains estimates of all departments. The present system is very unsound. I had four years experience in trying...
...business but its own. Surely such an announcement is somewhat inconsistent with the Irish resolution, whereby the same Senate plunges its finger, nay, its whole fist into the international pie, and extends a wholly gratuitous insult to a friendly nation. Great Britain is fully as anxious to get rid of the Irish question as the Irish are to get rid of Great Britain. Some day may see the matter adjusted; but that day will not be hastened by the meddling of the Senate...
...anyone fall to recognize the connection between this decision and the puzzling conflict of public interest and constitutional law in our attempts to rid the United States of Bolshevists and Bolshevism? We are a law-loving people. We are attached to the legal doctrines laid down by the fathers of the Constitution. We will not give up our belief in the virtue of free speech, freedom of the press, and tolerance of all political ideas. But of late we have been forced to realize that in this special case these principles have reacted to the detriment of the public welfare...
...plain that "disloyal citizens and spies" are the ones to be "used as targets for a firing squad." In this he is perfectly right, and I know from experience, gained in the last two or three years, that the firing squad is an easy and effective method of getting rid of such traitors and criminals...