Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ashamed to have to explain to a major of the U. S. Army (I am an American citizen) that the Dominicans as well as most of the population of Latin America are descendants of Spaniards, and consequently, it denotes quite a limited knowledge, the one who says this is a Negro republic...
...diplomatist! ... As I know my own business best, I am going to try and do it in my own way. . . . Nobody needs to explain to me how to get along with the English! I have met a lot of unsolicited advice about that, but I resent advice about how to get along with the English. ... I have got something to say! What we want is a pact of complete friendship and trust [between Britain and the U. S.]. That is what I am trying to bring about...
...White House. President Hoover called 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...
...TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...
Oklahoma officers arrested Thomason's "friends," lodged them in jail without bail on a charge of murder. Thomason himself "disappeared" for a day or so, only to give himself up, to explain that he had been "across the road" when the fatal shooting took place and knew nothing about...