Word: grammarians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shall or May. Like all political fights, this one could be minimized into a quarrel over terms-in this case a grammarian's choice: the word "may" or the word "shall." Vandenberg helped draft the arms embargo clause for the Neutrality Act; in it he insisted that when a state of war was found to exist, the President "shall proclaim" an embargo on sales of arms to belligerents...
...from me to cast aspersions upon, or even question, Grammarian McClenahan's syntactical rectitude...