Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Curtis then made 14 solemn promises, of which the following phrase was typical: "To enforce the laws without fear or favor." He discussed Farm Relief for twelve paragraphs, suggesting that a small, nonpartisan, joint committee of Congress be appointed to work out a plan. To Law Enforcement he gave five very Dry paragraphs: "The Constitution of the United States is the Keystone of our national strength, our pride in the hour of prosperity, our consolation and rallying point under every pressure of adversity . . . etc., etc." "I believe in meeting an issue squarely," he said. Next came Women, then...
...Such a management assumes that the only durable influences in Chicago political action are the influences of the racketeers, bombers, machine gunners, kidnappers, beer needlers, panders, joint keepers, gamblers, pay roll mendicants and petty thieves, fee robbers, habitual criminals, immunized murderers, and such gang chiefs as are able to keep away from each other's gun fire and enjoy the protection of official patronage on strictly business terms...
...querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address climaxed as follows: "We funny old things look to you lads to be the future leaders of the country." . . . Made public last week were the majority and minority reports of the Extraordinary Tribunal constituted by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to determine whether or not an improper Third Degree had been administered to Miss Irene Savidge, an admittedly innocent young woman. The majority report stated that the Scotland Yard police had acted in accordance with traditional procedure and must not therefore be censured, but added...
...executive session, for the first time in four years. Conservatives redoubled nervous vigilance. Calm impartial observers refreshed their memories as to the actual nature of the Internationale by re-reading Article I of its Constitution. Text: The new International Workmen's Association is formed for the organization of joint action by the proletariats of various countries, who are struggling for the same aims; the overthrow of capitalism, the creation of a dictatorship of the proletariat and an International Soviet Republic for the complete abolition of classes and the realization of Socialism, the first step towards a Communist society...
...over the disputed provinces of Tacna and Arica (TIME, March 7). They may now resume these negotiations, thus relieving the U. S. of much Latin American blame, which was incurred when the President of the U. S. did not succeed in settling the Tacna-Arica question, after accepting the joint invitations of Chile and Peru to act as arbiter (TIME, March...