Word: lets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...main points did Secretary Davis make: 1) Let the U. S. announce definitely that it has no intention of withdrawing from the Philippines for some time to come. This would stabilize the Filipino state of mind. 2) Let Filipino politics be subordinated to Filipino economics...
...does his young best to carry on as his Progressive father carried on before him. He was scheduled to reintroduce his resolution of last spring condemning presidential third terms. From the Democratic point of view it might seem like sending a boy on a man's errand to let "Young Bob" do this. But sometimes a boy does better than a man, especially on a saucy errand. Through "Young Bob" the Democrats will see their purpose served without loading themselves with responsibility or "radicalism." Similar Democrat-through-Progressive strategems may occur frequently this session...
...Senators-suspect came in. Mr. Smith seemed to lack the confidence which he displays in the print on a large signboard in front of his Illinois country home. He looked grateful for every handshake he got, every conversation" he was let into. Once he missed a handshake and had to fumble his coat button. The Senate is his life ambition ? and his seat was nearest the door...
Anti-Salooners. "The strategy we should employ today is to arouse our people and get them into the fight. Get the church people at the bat. Let them have their innings. . . . The Anti-Saloon League and the W. C. T. U. have never been and never will be supergovernment.* But we have said to the people that the time has come to take our government out of the hands of the bootleggers and put it back where it belongs." So said Superintendent Francis Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League last month. Last week there were rumblings among Anti-Salooners...
Captain Stayton paraphrased an imaginary income-taxpayer's reasoning: "'I want to get rid of these taxes. If the average man wants to drink beer and pay taxes on it, why, hell, let...