Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faith of pure and unadulterated democracy. The old party was our pillar of fire by night and cloud by day. When the hosts of rapine were threatening to engulf us, the Democratic Party was the point around which the beleaguered white people of the South rallied and looked for aid, and it is to the everlasting credit of the Republican Party that one of its Presidents saw the evil and came to our assistance. . . . I ask my colleague to withdraw the entire speech...
...Government thought to aid the Opposition in making up its mind about its next move. Accordingly, it was proposed in the Consulta to pay Deputies according to the number of sittings of the Chamber which they attended. (Incidentally the cost to the country of paying Deputies would be cut some 6,000,000 lire.) The object was, of course, to deprive the Aventine Deputies of the salaries which they are still drawing...
...United States War Department has announced the transfer of Major Charles D. Daly, who has been talked of as the future Harvard head-coach, from West Point Military Academy to the Harvard R. O. T. C. unit, located on Soldiers Field. Major Daly will probably be asked for aid on the football field next fall, the War Department promises the transfer before that time,--but that the was sent here specifically to join the coaching staff, is denied both by Major Fred W. Moore of the Harvard Athletic. Association and by Colonel W. S. Browning, head of the Harvard Military...
...With the aid of the Lieutenant Governor, Felix Toupin, a fiery little man of French descent who presided over the Senate, the Democrats began a filibuster a year ago to compel the Republicans to agree to a Constitutional Convention to do away with the "rotten borough" system. The filibuster lasted from January to June, with frequent clashes, several of which went to the point of physical violence. Finally in June, at the end of a heated session of 50 hours' duration, someone placed a bromine gas bomb behind the Lieutenant Governor's chair. The Democrats said...
...Nation sees in the worthy president a trembling hypocrite, who dusts off his fetish of personal liberty to aid him in regaining the right to drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship...