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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is another original subscriber who would like to take a life-term behind TIME'S flexible bars...
...know nothing of politics. However, I might give you a little gossip of Washington. There are two sides of the field there, a very brilliant administrative side and a legislative side which is-well, a little foggy. That is a nautical term...
...principles of the Constitution that she thinks it can be improved. I suppose most intelligent people think it might. Her particular improvement, looking to the abolition of war, seems to me not materially different . . . from a wish to establish Cabinet government or a single House or a term of seven years for the President. ... To touch a more burning question, only a judge mad with partisanship would exclude [from citizenship] because the applicant thought the 18th Amendment should be repealed...
...Short-term certificates are issued on the quarterly tax-payment days. The present system has these defects, as explained by Secretary Mellon: 1) Money is borrowed in advance of actual needs with a consequent loss of interest; 2) The Treasury must give the certificates, which it sells at par, as low an interest rate as possible, yet high enough to meet momentary conditions of the money market. This involves difficult guesswork...
Balance of Power. As a result of the ballot, grey-haired, brown-mustached James Ramsay MacDonald, leader of the Laborites, seemed likely to become a minority Prime Minister again. As during his first term (January-November 1924) the votes necessary for him to obtain a majority over the Conservatives on important party legislation lay in the control of that most professional political practitioner, bob-haired David Lloyd George. As before, Liberal Lloyd George could combine with whatever side he chose until it suited him to oppose the government on a confidence vote. Then another general election would be required...