Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Police Commissioner Enright of New York was taking a vacation on the Caribbean Sea, a great hullabaloo was raised over the "crime wave" which was convulsing the city because of the evil ways in which the police had fallen. Figures appeared showing the prevalency of crime and the failure of the police to handle the situation. At the same time the department under fire refused to allow any inspection of its records, or even to answer questions. When Commissioner Enright returned, he published an explosive letter condemning the "muckraking" tactics of newspapers and denying the existence of a crime...
...number of games won by Yale as compared to those won by Harvard should certainly disperse the great wave of over confidence which, since the Princeton-Yale game has swept over Harvard graduates and undergraduates alike...
...saved the impending pother which the formulation of such a resolution would arouse if left to be settled by debate from the floor of the Convention. It has met with the acquiescence of party leaders. When the news of its passage reached the delegates, it is said that a "wave of enthusiasm swept the assemblage...
...lesson of the nation-wide price-cutting wave is that under-consumption is as objective in reducing prices as is greater production. The Kansas City experiment reveals another method of bringing values back to normal. As yet the scheme has not been applied in other parts of the country. The plan has been to use Kansas City for an object-lesson, which, if heeded, will serve to prevent an equally dangerous situation from becoming acute in other cities. The warning may be enough--if not, legislation such as has proved so successful in Kansas City may have to be enforced...
Again, we have got to look ahead to the question of immigration after peace is sufficiently declared. We want and are going to have the right kind of immigration. We do not want the country filled with the forces of destruction. We do not want a red wave rolling in here which stands for nothing that we stand for but already has shown the absolute impracticability and futility of its views. Let us look our immigrants over a little and see that they are the right kind of men and women, and when they come, let us have a more...