Word: denials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that the Administration was by no means committed to an extra session. Since that time Washington correspondents have had two stock stories-the President denying all intention of calling a special session and the Senator insisting that a special session would be called. Since the first announcement and denial the situation has altered considerably, inasmuch as some weeks ago the Mississippi flood was the centre of extra-session discussion whereas by last week the flood appeared to be running a bad second to tax reduction. From views expressed by both Senators Smoot and Harrison and also by Representatives John...
...wind . . . Jenny sat beside me biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still haven't finished Clare? Afraid you can't have any more time today.' I experienced all the pangs of thwarted ambition, denial in che midst of white hot creation, death in the midst of life, and could have wept." The many assurances of Author Cameron's eagerness to express herself arouse the suspicion that she would have done better to curb her eagerness until she was eager to express more than her eagerness...
...enclosed clipping is in quite emphatic denial of your item under MILESTONES in TIME, May 16, concerning the marriage of W. Lee Smith, and therefore in keeping with your usual fairness, it should be given as much publicity as what you printed...
...term petition directed against Theodore Roosevelt (TIME, May 23). In view of President Coolidge's possible 1928 presidential candidacy, his signing of a No-Third-Term petition (if he did sign one) would indeed have been a "bloody invention" returned to plague the inventor. Seeking official confirmation or denial, most of the Washington correspondents referred to the rumor in their conference questions. When the petition subject was wholly ignored, newspapers reported that the White House had failed to deny the signing. In anti-Administration circles, this failure was exploited as confirmation of the story. Thus embarrassment was not avoided...
Thus the rumors. On the other hand, President Coolidge has repeatedly expressed approval of and confidence in Secretary Kellogg. The White House has issued definite, formal denial of reported changes in the Cabinet...