Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annoyed by persistent rumors, the President let it be known that his Cabinet is not split on the Chinese problem, that Secretary of State Kellogg has the situation well in hand and is not going to resign. Furthermore, said the President, even if Secretary Kellogg should resign, Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will not be appointed to succeed...
...viewing with horror the approaching executions of two men whose guilt they question. Last week 7,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square, roared "Stop the murder of Sacco & Vanzetti." In London, in Paris, in The Hague police guard U. S. embassies and consulates, fearing that European radicals will let bombs express their disapproval of Massachusetts justice. Girls of Wellesley and Barnard colleges have petitioned the Governor to intervene. And a long list of liberal intelligentsia, including Jane Addams of Hull House, Remain Rolland (French novelist), Felix Frankfurter of the Harvard Law School faculty, Albert Einstein (relativity theorist) and many...
...films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
...essence of the American film is the strong 'heman' who landed the goods, the self-made man who struggled to the top. We want more of that type. Let us have that sort of hero, rather than the dude who spends his time at the races or in dance halls, or the type of gentleman who never worked...
...Leave me my American films. Don't let us shut down the only stream of moral influence coming into this country...