Word: gist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, who resigned as leader of the North Carolina Democracy and said he would vote for neither Smith nor Hoover, last week openly joined the anti-Smith Democrats. He repeated the gist of his pre-nomination statements: "I am profoundly convinced that the election of Governor Smith would be unfortunate alike to the party and the country." Reason: Tammany...
Such was the gist of a Royal Decree at which robed and bearded members of Afghanistan's Parliament trembled, submissive but indignant. Meekly they obeyed...
fPennsylvania tried to get the gist of this resolution incorporated in the G. O. P. Platform. It was thrown...
...departure of Sinclair's lawyers for El Paso to take Fall's deposition for the defense. The gist of the Fall statement was expected to be the old story that it was Edwin Denby, the Harding Navy Secretary and not Fall who persuaded President Harding to transfer Teapot Dome from the Navy to the Interior Department, a transfer to which Fall says he assented "reluctantly and only at the instance of the President...
Representative William A. Oldfield of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee. He spoke, but none remembered the gist...