Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...returned to the source from which it came. We cannot in self-respect or in justice to the voters in the party keep it. . . . I venture the opinion that there are plenty of Republicans who will be glad to contribute from one dollar up to any reasonable sum, to clear their party of this humiliating stigma...
...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...
Such is the case of the amateur tennis players, a case that is hard to defend on any grounds, since it is not at all clear why those who are good at one thing must shun it as a visible means of support, relying on the power of their names for assistance in what they do wretchedly. Love of the game is often cited as the motive for this mesalliance, but it is a love without restraint that advocates a March training camp, a love of the Davis Cup rather than the game for which it stands...
...reduction. New York has a State income tax. Smith spent the entire legislative session of 1925 fighting for a twenty-five per cent reduction. He won it from a Republican majority which opposed it for no very clear reason except that Smith was for it. No further reduction has been possible since 1925. The expenditures of the State of New York have been rising, whereas those of the nation have been falling--more gradually, of late. As against this fact it is fair to remember that a Republican majority has at all times been in command of the New York...
...becomes gradually clear, however, that for the initial award after the renascence of an old tradition, the Union has done rightly to forego the selection of a single alumnus. The honor of being the most prominent Harvard graduate would be a doubtful one, even were it the intention of the Union to make choice upon that understanding. The question was sensibly beggared by the announcement that the dinner would be given merely to "a prominent Harvard graduate...