Word: cussion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonable or just. . . . [The Puritans] spurned democracy, they persecuted conscience . . . taxed without consent." He had intended to say, and in the pre-issued version of his speech did say much about the narrow religious horizons of Englishmen in the 17th Century and their desire to persecute Catholics. After dis- cussion with the Tercentenary Commission, however, he orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when the New Canaan would be largely occupied by men of the splendid Irish race, whom...