Word: disturbes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ghost with the bearing of Metternich walks in Germany again. An emergency decree empowers local authorities to stop gatherings which they regard likely to disturb public order, to suppress papers which attack religious organizations, slander public figures, or incite to violence, and to dissolve any societies which fail to keep the peace...
...Shall I-do you desire me to disturb him?" stammered a devout aide...
...believe that public opinion has failed to curb this annoyance because: (1) it has not been powerful enough and (2) it has not taken into consideration the fact that those who are of such character as to find it expedient to disturb the peace in this most obnoxious manner cannot be reached by ordinary means, by reserved remonstrances of the CRIMSON, nor, at the other extreme, by gifts of bibs and lollypops by the metropolitan dailies...
...Senate, the President wrote: "I am advised that these appointments were constitutionally made . . . formally communicated to me, and that the return of the documents by me and reconsideration by the Senate would be ineffective to disturb the appointees in their offices...
Indeed even before the President's telegram was answered, the serious voice of Virginia's Senator Carter Glass proclaimed: "No group of Democrats, however distinguished or discerning, should feel obliged to pledge their party associates in Congress not severely to disturb the most infamous tariff act ever enacted by a legislative body. ... I confess to some astonishment that anybody should feel impelled to apologize for an apparent Democratic victory. . . ." Many another voice, particularly from the South, echoed Senator Glass. By the week's end, what looked like a real revolt against the seven leaders (Messrs. Smith. Davis, Cox, Robinson, Garner...