Word: desiree
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is the privilege of successful genius to demand its due and the desire of the populace to accord it, especially if no material consideration is involved. But in the partisanship of the Smithsonian Institute in behalf of the Langley airplane, Orville Wright, co-designer with his brother of the...
"Whereas on April 13, 1925, the Corporation, acting on the advice of a committee of the Overseers and of the Associated Harvard Clubs, were of opinion 'that if the alumni desire to present to the University an adequate sum of money for the building of the University chapel, the same...
"My conviction that I should not strive for the nomination, and my obligations as Secretary of Commerce preclude me from making any personal campaign. I must rely wholly upon my friends in Ohio to conduct it, and to conduct it in a fair manner and with steadfast regard for Republican...
"We make no secret of our desire to control the Panama Canal in inter-American relations. The United States does not want a provision that might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of...
The first intervention by Presidential epistle (TIME, Feb. 7, 1927) was that which caused the Nationalists (disciples of Hindenburg) to enter and make possible the formation of the present majority coalition cabinet of Chancellor Dr. Wilhelm Marx. Previously the Nationalists had refused to enter any cabinet, since to do so...