Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This issue (prohibition) will be in the minds and upon the lips of the voters from the day the conventions adjourn until the day the polls close. Everybody, except the deaf and dumb and the candidates, will discuss...
...speech to the New York Women's Committee for Law Enforcement, Senator Borah said: "Everybody, except the deaf & dumb and the candidates, will be discussing it. . . . Under proper leadership the people of the United States will enforce any law which they are willing to repeal. Under proper leadership they will repeal any law which they are unwilling to enforce. Let us not play the game below the intelligence and the courage and the character of the people." In a speech last week to the National Grange convention at Cleveland, Senator Borah said: "You know perfectly well that a political...
...Daily Princetonian in a recent editorial. One gathers that the situation is even more stringent at that University than here at Cambridge. The Princetonian decries the fact that "undergraduates are forced to take this course"' and the Princetonian objects, although conscious that such objections are likely to fall on deaf ears...
...Lyles came right out and warned Miss Mills that Mr. Van Vechten's interest in Negroes would do her no good; warned her to steer clear of him and turn a deaf ear to his flattery. Mr. Van Vechten, said Mr. Lyles, had only brought shame upon Negroes by taking an "esthetic" interest in their art. Mr. Van Vechten's real purpose, said Mr. Lyles, was to encourage and exaggerate Negro vulgarity and thus, subtly, pander to the "white supremacy" notion of Nordics. Let Florence Mills beware of Carl Van Vechten lest she, pride of "Race People," lose...
...particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...