Word: cites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Wellesley Peel (1884-95), youngest son of the great Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel. Naughtiest was Charles Shaw Lefevre (1841-57) who delighted to cite precedents which did not exist, and would solemnly intone, according to ritual, that his most outrageous decisions were justified by "the well known practice of the House...
Senator Andre Honnorat of France, to tell President Coolidge about the Cite Universitaire foundation in Paris, to which many countries, including the U. S., have been invited to contribute dormitories for their nationals...
...opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill and partly upon the famous dollar-wheat decision of the Food Administration in war days. Hoover makes no bones of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill but his friends insist that he had nothing to do with the dollar-wheat decision, and cite evidence to prove their case. That evidence is now being carried to the tribunal of the nation--the people...
...Klux Klan is sure that Smith's foreign policy would be to deliver the United States into the hands of Rome. There are other observers who cite Smith's refusal to be swept off his feet in the post-war Bolshevist hysteria as proof that if he were elected President he would show foresight liberality, and cool-headedness in his foreign policy, that he would leave this department of the Government largely in the hands of his advisers...
...course, appealed. Harry Ford Sinclair, looking like a tired Mussolini, had plenty of money left to go on arguing that any man with money enough is as fully entitled to shadow juries as is the U. S. Government. To support this contention, Sinclair's lawyers might even cite certain earlier activities of William J. Burns, when he was Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this: that Sinclair hired...