Word: denials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senators Watson and Reed to the White House. When they returned to the Capitol, they were asked to explain the Presidents' tariff position. Senator Watson spoke with assurance of a "sane and sensible" tariff revision, of a "yardstick of adequate protection." Promptly from the White House came a denial that Senator Watson had been authorized to voice the Hoover views. Democrats jibed that the President must therefore favor "an insane and senseless" tariff revision without any reasonable measurement for protection. The White House the next day denied its first denial, which left the President's tariff attitude more...
...that there is as yet no basis in law for the application of the Tinkham Amendment, which aimed to exclude from the Reapportionment count inhabitants of states whose franchise has been denied or abridged (i. e., Negroes in Southern states). No Southern state yet stands legally convicted of such denial or abridgement...
Thus Washingtonians, last week, were completely at a loss for an explanation which would reconcile the Post's discourtesy to the Prince, and Publisher McLean's denial of connection therewith. Many a Washingtonian did indeed continue to believe that Prince and Publisher had had a tiff, and that the tiff had been preceded by meat and drink, and that it had resulted in Prince and Publisher each feeling insulted by the other...
Dignified Neighbor Muller added his denial of the assault. "When I tried to usher Mrs. Hanner out of the Baroness Strabolgi's apartment." said he, "Mrs. Hanner sat down upon the floor...
...Denials make poor reading and worse information; a sweeping denial, it is true, may close discussion on a subject, but the mere bolting of a single door piques the curiosity in regard to all the others. In the present case, the real question hinges on what is to be done with the present H. A. A. surplus not what definite sum it is not going to be allowed to accumulate to. It is too much to hope that Harvard men will continue smilingly to pay five dollars a ticket to see football games when part of this sum is going...