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Word: breastwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1927-1927
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...matter what may be the evasions and silences of party platforms, no candidate for high office will be permitted to shelter himself behind the papier-māché breastwork of law enforcement. He will have to stand up and declare whether he is for the Federal Union established by the Constitution or against it; whether he is for the forbidden and abhorrent 18th Amendment, which has been forced into the Constitution, or against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Borah v. Butler | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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