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The percentage of duty was very heavy - quite beyond the difference in the cost of production , which was not then regarded as a necessary or proper limitation upon protective duties . . . On the whole , however , I am bound to say that ...
The percentage of duty was very heavy - quite beyond the difference in the cost of production , which was not then regarded as a necessary or proper limitation upon protective duties . . . On the whole , however , I am bound to say that ...
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That production of a plenty can spring alone from the initiative and enterprise of free men . That is no system of robbery . It is action for the common service . That is destroyed at once by the grotesque notion that government shall ...
That production of a plenty can spring alone from the initiative and enterprise of free men . That is no system of robbery . It is action for the common service . That is destroyed at once by the grotesque notion that government shall ...
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industries in which prices dropped most during the depression production tended to drop least , while for those in which prices were maintained the drop in production was usually greatest . Indeed , the whole depression might be ...
industries in which prices dropped most during the depression production tended to drop least , while for those in which prices were maintained the drop in production was usually greatest . Indeed , the whole depression might be ...
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Contents
I | 1 |
A message of hope and a promise of action First Inaugural Address | 5 |
The clash of cultures C A Eastman 1915 | 11 |
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| Title | The Making of American Democracy: 1865-1960 Volume 2 of The Making of American Democracy: Readings and Documents, Ray Allen Billington |
| Editor | Ray Allen Billington |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 |
| ISBN | 0209540710, 9780209540712 |
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