Word: turmoils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turmoil, Bickerings...
...know what kind of recompense this isolation is for the immense sacrifice that they made. How in fact have these veterns been repaid? By promises of a bonus which a large number of them do not want, and by leaving Europe to create another war out of the turmoil of the last, a war into which America will be drawn as inevitably as it was in 1916. While the government is apparently awaiting an opportunity to be of help, the opportunity, in fact, the necessity of giving France such backing as to get her off Germany's neck, is waiting...
What apparently is lacking today is common sense. The Eighteenth Amendment has raised an even more futile turmoil than that of the national house cleaning after the Civil War. At the Washington Citizenship Conference recently Governor Pinchot found that most of the trouble lay in the capital, the center of "political ham-stringing of the Federal Enforcement Service." Bryan demanded that the President and the Cabinet should publicly declare themselves teetotalers. Senator Borah thundered his denunciation of wealthy "whites" who defy the law. And on the other said Congressman Hill of Maryland has declared insolently that "if the Drys throw...
...sacrifices to which you have consented in the general interest certainly have been heavy, but the result is worth the price paid. May this peaceful development extend throughout the whole world, liberating us from this oppression of conflict, turmoil and fear, and making us really free." (See page 2, Mor-ganthau's speech...
...many things to recall of the old days in which there were of course, giants: ambrosial make-up meetings whence numbers issued more or less by mistake; the horrors of proof reading at dawn; the bitterness of controversy and mutual criticism; the tense excitement each has experienced in the turmoil of competition with more than one "up-start" but determined rival...