Word: speciousness
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...nothing but specious conjectures...
...best fruits of industry; abroad workers compete for the mere right to survive. Decidedly, foreign laborers, made desperate by economic inevitabilities, are ready to strike out for new Utopias; but third-party leaders in America need not expect the well-fed and well-flivvered worker to rally round specious shibboleths of discontent. It's only lean and hungry men that Caesar fears...
...propose to stultify our position now or to further such injustice and unfairness on the specious plea that it is 'news...
...Politics', especially now that we have begun to slip our constitutional moorings and to drift towards a direct democracy. There are passages in it as modern as the morning newspaper, and at least a hundred times more sensible. Take the passage: 'Such legislation (against private property) may have a specious appearance of benevolence; men readily listen to it, and are easily induced that in some wonderful manner everybody will become everybody's friend, especially when some one is heard denouncing the evils now existing in states . . . which are said to arrive out of the possession of private property. These evils...
...real trouble has been that the U. S. Government has, under the specious pretext of a "franchise tax," confiscated the earnings of Reserve Banks over dividends at a modest return to surplus account. The Reserve Banks should be allowed to accumulate large surpluses, so that, in just such times as the present, they could pay dividends out of surplus for years if necessary...