Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Authorities who assert that President Coolidge's "I do not choose" is a dialect expression peculiar to Vermont seem to have overlooked something that ought to be familiar. Let them turn to "Alice in Wonderland." In that world-wide classic "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they will find...
...News gatherers tried to find out what President Coolidge might do when his term is up. In a carefree mood, he let it be known that he had no immediate intention to "locate at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue" (i.e. in Congress). Perhaps, he said, there would be a vacancy in the municipal government of Northampton, Mass. It was as a Northampton city councilman that President Coolidge entered politics 28 years...
...Republicans 48, Democrats 47, Farmer-Labor 1. With two Republican seats vacant pending investigation of their occupants-elect, and with the Farmer-Laborite and at least four Republicans calling themselves "progressives," the Democrats might, had they wished, have gained command of the Senate. But the Democrats preferred to let the G. O. P. stand responsible for the Senate's deeds this session. The five "progressives"- "Wisconsin's LaFollette and Elaine, North Dakota's Frazier and Nye, and Minnesota's unique Farmer-Laborite Shipstead" had, prior to the Senate's "organizing," asked the orthodox Republicans...
...that opposed to it." Senator Heflin lent his bovine eloquence, carrying on the Wall-Street-v.-Peepul theory until he had demanded the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. The latter and a "crooked" subordinate had aided & abetted the cotton and grain "gambling gang" (brokers), roared Mr. Heflin. Let such rascals resign or be run out of Washington...
...next year and report upon what elements of greater freedom should be extended to Indians. When the Earl of Birkenhead himself tried to explain why not one single Indian will sit on this commission his logic lacked conviction; but Mr. Baldwin turned the trick emotionally with two spacious sentences. "Let Indians dismiss any imputation of inferiority," said he. "They will be approached as friends and equals...