Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidential election cannot be a real expression of opinion on what reservations, if any, the people want; for any candidate who declares for ratification of the Treaty with any set of reservations will obtain the votes of the members of his party who desire ratification at all, the great bulk of the public caring far more about ratification than about the particular reservations attached thereto. I also believe delay most unfortunate, because until the Treaty is ratified unrest, whether in Europe or in this country, cannot subside, the world cannot return to a normal condition, and the problems of peaceful...
...convention--but this type of oratory does not impress the ordinary college man. Not all the speeches of the convention were of this type, however: Dean Brown of Yale gave an inspiring address on the great international problems facing the world today. But up to Friday night, when the bulk of the Harvard delegation left, his had been the only practical speech of the convention...