Word: germains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...German American Citizens' League for instance, passed a resolution urging President-elect Harding "to consider the number of Americans of German descent," when choosing his Cabinet, and another calling on his administration to reject the peace pacts of Versailles and St. Germain. George Sylvester Vireck, of the Committee, said he was prepared to suggest "Cabinet-sized German Americans," if he were asked to do so. It is doubtful if he will be asked; the United States is not interested in pan-anything, least of all pan-Germanism. No doubt there are German-Americans who are "cabinet-sized"; the point...