Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first-ballot votes. With such pro-Smith States as Maryland, New Jersey, Wyoming and Vermont yet to be heard from, and reserve Smith strength at hand from at least two Favorite Sons (Ohio's Pomerene, Nebraska's Hitchcock), the rush for the brown derby counter seemed so well under way that Smith men tried to talk down their earlier talk of acclaiming Candidate Smith on the first ballot at Houston. It would look just as much like party harmony and less like a Smith stampede, they reasoned, if Favorite Sons should receive complimentary votes for perhaps two ballots...
Russian industrial region of the Don and charged with "counter revolutionary sabotage." Only two of these men have been released, despite the repeated protests of the German Government...
Apparently M. Stalin is convinced that even the few foreign technicians who have been imported to teach Russians the tricks of industrial trades now constitute a counter-revolutionary menace and are subsidized by the Capitalist Powers...
Sebastian Spering Kresge (5 & 10 cent stores), giver of gold to the Anti-Saloon League, testified in his counter divorce suit against Mrs. Kresge that she offered to bear him a child if he would pay her $10,000,000. "At that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give...
...their elation at finding such an issue for the coming campaign, the Democrats at once found Coolidge, Mellon, Hughes and Hoover full of the sin of omission, for the kept silence about conditions when they must have been aware of them. For a counter-attack the best the Republicans have been able to do is to make an ineffectual attempt to implicate Al Smith in the mesh, at the same time maintaining that none of the guilty ones are in the party at present and that they are not liable for the sins of their predecessors. But the genie...