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Thereupon Senator Ralston, Demo-cratic sage, proposed that there should be a new deal. Let the Government, said he, devise a Muscle Shoals pol- icy. In conformity with that policy, let there be new bids. This was tantamount to postponing the whole question for at least a year...
...pacifist motion introduced by Walter Ayles, a young Quaker Labor-Socialist, representing North Bristol, proposing a sweeping reduction in the British Army of 150,000 men. The authorized strength of the British Army is 225,588 all ranks, including 71,357 British Garrison in India, so the measure was tantamount to the abolition of the British Home forces, exclusive of the 135,000 Territorial (or Militia) forces. A small bloc of former "conshies," or Conscientious Objectors, were the only M. P.'s in favor of reduction. The Government held that one nation disarmed in the midst of an armed...
...godliness" tantamount to a Christian mode of life? If so, then whose interpretation of Christianity? How can that "godliness" include the Buddhist, the Jew, or the Confucianist within our gates. Frankly, are these groups "godless"? And again, if "godliness" demands subscription to a trinitarian theism, all monotheists must be "godless". Pantheists of any sort, by such a criterion, are hopelessly "godless...
From a man of Commissioner Tigret's position, a flat statement of this sort is more than unfortunate, especially since the signing of the Big Three Agreement between three of the most prominent universities of the country. It is tantamount to implying that the agreement is purely for outside consumption, and that the officials of the signatory college, all men of established probity, are conniving at what would very nearly approach a conspiracy to deceive...
This indeed seems tantamount to admitting that things have been so bad that they could not get worse...