Word: butted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Budget of the U. S. is a green-bound volume about the size of a telephone book for a city of two million and contains about as many figures. Prepared under the President's personal supervision, it details to Congress, which is under a moral but not legal...
With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack.
¶Declared Miss Gail Laughlin. Maine legislator: "There may be too much lobbying going on in Washington, but there is not nearly enough of the right kind." She urged more lobbying for the "20th Amendment" (equality of the sexes in all things before the U. S. law).
When white-lipped "Saint Maggie" risked a closure vote, bellowing John Wheately rushed into the Opposition lobby ahead of the Conservatives themselves, took with him other Clydesiders-fiery Jimmy Maxton, carrot-haired George Buchanan, dour David Kirkwood. Amid Tory cheers and then a dead hush Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin edged...
¶As usual, David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who...