Word: dears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm bloc scoffed, called it "a sop to the farmer vote." If they couldn't have the dear old Haugen Bill, they would see to it that no agricultural legislation got through. Senator Watson (Rep.) of Indiana, always a good schemer behind the scenes, tried to have the World War Veterans Bill given the right of way and thereby shelve all farm matters. Senator Willis of Ohio objected and prevented the Senate from totally disregarding the President's views...
...three sides by the Little Entente). As the three Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain tariff laws dear to the Czechoslovak Cabinet by resigning his Foreign Ministry forthwith. The Little Entente Conference broke up ere it began, as its dominant figure (Benes) hastened to Prague...
...reason for this astonishing demand was of a nature dear to politicians. The Czech National Socialists are engaged in attacking the government's Grain Duties Act, a salutary bourgeois measure perhaps a trifle too conciliatory toward the Teutonic moneyed class...
...witness that I, in order to avoid war, went to the uttermost limit compatible with responsibility for the security and inviolability of my dear fatherland...
...chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped me to my carriage . . . good-bye . . . good...