Word: fore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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America moves fast. Speed has leaped to the fore of our national traits. Elinor Wylie calls it a national fever: Americans, she says, keep the pavements...
...Premier got over the difficulty by making a moderate speech. His references to the Herriot Government were fleeting: he confined himself principally to attacking the Clemenceau and Poincaré Governments, attacks which at various times brought forth cries of : "Clemenceau must be sent be fore the firing squad." "Let Poincaré take Caillaux's place before the High Court...
...some years before the power of removal again came to the fore, but it came?when Andrew Johnson and Congress were grappling at each other's throats. In 1867, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, prohibiting the President from removing any officer without the consent of the Senate. Congress was intent on having a different way from President Johnson's way in the administration of Reconstruction measures. In particular, it wished to see Secretary of War Edward McMasters Stanton continued in office because
...tremendously important political asset. Fear of the League of Nations helped to give Mr. Harding his tremendous ma- jority in 1920; fear of Mr. LaFollette helped to give Mr. Coolidge his victory in 1924. In pushing the idea of the evil consequences of the Child Labor Amendment to the fore, its opponents have placed its proponents entirely on the defensive. Consequently the arguments against the Amendment should be given first...
...evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area or not to evacuate the Cologne bridgehead area? That was the question, reduced to its simplest expression, which was to the fore in France, Britain and Germany; the rest of the world was an interested spectator...