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Cry Wolf Quotes
Excited persons rarely accomplish anything…No new laws are needed.
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The New York Times tended to be very pro-business during this period. After the fire, but before the launch of the Factory Investigating Commission. Only date available: 1911.
I do not believe in legislation so radical that it means an attack on the valuation of real estate or driving out of our state manufacturing concerns or other large business enterprises.
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Governor Martin Glynn (D) sides with the business interests, signaling the Factory Investigating Commission’s declining power.
We have laws that in a crisis we find are no laws and we have enforcement that when the hour of trial comes we find is no enforcement.
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Rabbi Stephen Wise, 1911
That same threat was made when the child labor law was passed and not one of the manufacturers moved out.
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Abram I. Elkus, counsel for the Factory Investigating Commission.
