Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extraordinary powers over U. S. business, viz., the opera tion of the railroads. After the War, the extraordinary powers were withdrawn, control decentralized. "There has been revived in this campaign, however, a series of proposals which, if adopted, would be a long step towards the abandonment of our American system and a surrender to the destructive operation of governmental conduct of commercial business. Because the country is faced with difficulty and doubt over certain national problems - that is,« prohibition, farm relief and elec trical power - our opponents propose that we must thrust government a long way into the businesses...
...really important question is not whether Vanzetti was innocent but whether Vanzetti had a fair trial. If he received a fair trial, neither he nor his friends have, or ever had, any real complaint against the courts of Massachusetts. Under our system a lawsuit is not an independent, scientific investigation for the discovery of truth, but is an adversary proceeding. The court has no facilities for making impartial investigations. The machinery for the administration of justice does not, and from its very nature cannot, function perfectly. In criminal cases the de- Instead of blasting off 30 feet of matrix from...
Adopted State Park System...
This has been true during his eight years as Governor in securing the adoption of a state park system, in the promotion of social legislation, in advancing public education, in a comprehensive grappling with grade-crossing evils, in the protection of the power resources of the state from selfish exploitation. The so-called economic questions of the future are only in part economic. Largely they involve a redistribution of responsibility and power; a more effective share by labor and agriculture in the nation's councils. The emphasis of Mr. Hoover's whole thought is the assumption that increasing industrial efficiency...
...taken as convincing evidence that the second eleven will start the contest is the fact that they were drilled yesterday against an attack which uses the buddle as Lehigh does. The scrubs were putting on all sorts of balanced and unbalanced formations which are associated with the huddle system in a defensive dummy scrimmage which formed the main part of the workout...