Word: shipmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer's disposal (see p. 11), like sharp discrimination between Agriculture and Industry. President Coolidge signed the Jones-White Merchant Marine bill, providing this increase, the same day he vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill also provided comforting U. S. mail contracts for U. S. shipmen. President Coolidge's main reasons for approving the ship bill were two: It was designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from...
There are extremists is every cause. And pacifism has gained a connotation too far removed from that which it should unquestionably possess. But this parading of the West Point regiment and the mid-shipmen also bears the stigma of a certain false valuation. Not by parading either war or peace, but by understanding both can the citizens of the lake city improve their morale. And in commending such a parade the eastern press merely adds to the popular misconception of modern issues of international intellectual and morale progress...