Word: stopgaps
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...perfectly easy thing to say we must restore the purchasing power of the farmer. Fine! Of course we must. But how are we going to do it? . . . Exception to this [program of public works] was recently taken by a prominent Democrat on the theory that it is a stopgap. Who ever said it was anything else? It is at least better than nothing and infinitely better than a continuance of the disguised dole in States and municipalities. . . . The country is flooded with statesmen who orate and stop at that. Oratory puts no body to work...
...Cabinet of which he was Premier his friend must be a Minister. To form a cabinet including Friend Andre at that moment proved impossible. Again M. Laval slipped into obscurity; but 1931 was just around the corner. Briefly Theodore Steeg, former French Resident General of Morocco, headed a shaky, stopgap Cabinet...
...coming session the Labor Government must put their new stopgap scheme to the test, either wangle through with it or go to the country for a general election...
...stopgap chancellor, however, he should do very well since he is a Roman Catholic and enjoys the support of the largest faction in the republic, the reactionary, Catholic "Christian Socialists" who abhor the late Karl Marx (see p. 53) as though he were Beelzebub...
From this stopgap victory in the Chamber, M. Briand hastened to defend the Locarno Pacts, then up for ratification before the Senate...