Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> As a leading nominee for Führer & Savior of the U. S., the Army's retired Major General George Van Horn Moseley last week damned Jews, Reds and the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities whose guest he was. Witness Moseley set a record high for testamentary effrontery...
>Vetoed another bill to permit docking horses' tails, commenting: "If the Almighty wanted the bony part of a horse's tail six inches shorter, why didn't He make them grow that way? Don't ask me to assist in changing His plans."
> Together with the Republican Legislature, he abolished the civil-service system which Reform Governor Frank Murphy contributed toward non-political administration, substituted the old-fashioned spoils system for most State offices. ("It has been said many times that under such conditions I have felt the need for spiritual wisdom. If...
Looking owlish, Emerson Boyles observed: "Weird. If Dickinson is not Governor, who is?"
For the "appeasers," of Britain and France, he had nothing but scorn. He recalled that British and French statesmen (such as Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Edouard Daladier) had once glorified "the successes of the ill-starred Munich agreement," and now he questioned whether they had really changed at heart...