Word: answer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Springfield, Mass. Republican, daily Bible of many a Coolidge-type Republican, said in an editorial last week: "Perhaps no candidate could save the Republican party this year. It has sins to answer for-and crimes. There is terrible force in the contention that the Republican party deserves punishment, if it is impossible.to put the Falls, Dohenys and Sinclairs into jail. How can it escape punishment if it rejects a candidate with the qualifications of Mr. Hoover, unless there is a candidate with higher qualifications? And where...
...referred specifically only to New York. Would that mean an answer to the report that Wall Street is definitely assured of the ultimate Coolidge acceptance in case of a locked convention (TIME...
...Randolph Hearst. In 1919, after Smith had striven to better New York City's milk supply and been balked by a Republican legislature, Hearst's press had viciously accused Smith of being in league with the milk trust, of starving New York's babies. Smith had answered, defied, publicly tongue-lashed Hearst, with Irish violence. Now, Hearst had forgotten, but Smith had not forgotten. To Tammany's coalition proposal, Smith said: "The answer...
Eyes privileged to glimpse the advance proofs, last week, reported that the book is a voluminous answer to a possible hypothetical woman who asked Mr. Shaw to "explain Socialism." From this point of departure he launches into a potpourri of Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
...candidate has never been tampered with; his privilege of saying anything or nothing has always stood; and if he has recently preferred to say nothing, who has there been to forbid him? Even this right is at last being undermined; and, although no one troubles himself to answer the inquisitive Congressmen, there must be a little stir of uneasiness, foreboding the time when the voters themselves may ask this sort of question, and expect to be answered...