Word: suasions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of Franco-German relations is the greatest problem in Europe at the present day. On its successful solution depends much of the future. But even the League with at best only a loose power of moral suasion, would seem to be a greater hope for a lasting peace than a separate state, sure to invite the envy of one if not both of its great neighbors. Perhaps after all the two countries will be forced to the solution which at the moment seems the most unlikely-an economic union based on coal in the Ruhr and iron in Lorraine...
...pets. This is a problem that has for years distressed the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior. Grave cases have been reported to the Bureau of individuals who possess half a dozen dogs and hold on to them with a tenacity that no amount of moral, suasion can shake. Now it is announced that the braves of Fort Berthold Agency have decided to get along with two dogs per Indian, and to put, as well, a dollar tax on every dog within the legal quota...
...ethics of "Stalky and Co," and its "moral suasion" has been much discussed. Even now, with so startling an effect of the fag system set before them, the English papers are still battling over the question. The opponents of the custom have good support in the news of this suicide; their antagonists lay stress on the "over-sensitiveness" of the boy in the case, an uphold hazing as being generally wholesome and corrective. Both sides, incidentally, agree that hazing is not nearly so prevalent as it was fifty or a hundred years...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...