Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enforcement, he said. "I speak only the truth when I say that the people of any locality get the degree of law enforcement upon which they insist and for which they are willing to pay. . . ." He said he was and would be willing to "remove from office upon proper proof being presented, any public official charged with laxity in enforcement of the law." But he repeated: "Law enforcement must of necessity begin with arrest. Too many misinformed people look for detailed enforcement from the head rather than from the root of police power...
Anticipating critics who would say that to let the War Department place "educational" orders would swamp the War Department with demands for patronage, Secretary Davis referred again to the existing shortage of reserve munitions. Moreover, he pointed out that powder grows old. Small-arm ammunition lives 10 years; artillery shells, 20 years. Also, the War Department has many a new type of gun which it wants to try out. Requests for orders would come no faster than the War Department needs arise. No question of profiteering would enter because the orders would be on such a small scale...
Politics. Being a gambler, the farmer is a skeptic and like all skeptics he is willing to believe unpleasant things. Thus, for example, when politicians tell him, for their own purposes, that the tariff discriminates against him, he believes it. Were the politicians honest, they would say that the tariff favors manufacturers, which is very different. But instead of mere jealousy, the farmer has been made to feel that he suffers downright injury from the manufacturers' tariff. Similarly, ever since the Government fixed farm prices as a War measure, the farmer has been told, and he believes, there...
Ideals: I. Foreign investors in Mexico should be divested of the extensive rights of exploitation which they bought "legally but unjustly" (say many Mexicans) from previous corrupt Mexican regimes...
...material in our Osteological, brain, and other collections is used nowhere near as much as it should be by the medical man and the surgeon. . . . [Physical anthropology shows for example] that the normal stature of an adult American male is not 5 feet 7½ inches, but anywhere between, say, 5 ft. 4 in., and 6 ft. 3 in. The normal male pulse is not invariably 71.5, but ranges between 66 and 78 per minute. The normal pelvis, head, and any other part or organ, may show as much as 10 to 16% normal variation in size, with a considerable...