Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, I have made careful inquiries and I regret that so far I cannot find: (a) The $10,000,000 I am said to have made in my early youth, or even middle age, or altogether, or any respectable part of it. (b) The investments that I am supposed to have in Great Britain...
Senator Thomas David Schall of Minnesota, repining Republican, said: "I cannot bring myself to support actively Secretary Hoover or his policies with regard to agriculture. On the other hand I cannot support Smith. I am a Republican still, although I expect to be very still in this campaign...
...Volstead Act. I was also against the Mann Act. Not because I want to get drunk or pay the carfare of a lady from one State to another, but because our government was founded on the principle that the central authority should not act except where the States cannot. I think it was a very unwise departure for the national government to attempt to regulate personal conduct...
...liquor purveying is not "rationing," as is often erroneously supposed. It does not extend to each Swede the privilege of buying a ration equal to his neighbor's. A citizen upon whose police record appear charges of repeated drunkenness, crime, wife beating, or failure to support his children, cannot buy liquor at all in the neat stores of the Swedish Monopoly...
...Rejected by standard tire companies as unfair and uneconomical. . . . Abused by unscrupulous drivers. ... An unfair sales inducement rather than a protection for the buyer. . . . There are no miles in a bottle of ink. You cannot put mileage into tires by written guarantees-it must be built...