Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press of the U. S. discovered, to its admiration and amusement, that President & Mrs. Coolidge had made a Sunday morning motor trip to Bull Run battlefield in Virginia, returning for a 2 p. m. lunch at the White House. The matter went unreported for 24 hours-a record in the Coolidge administration...
...double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota. It was an easy matter for the defense to impress the jury with the incompetence with which the hearing was conducted. The official stenographic record was riddled with errors and omissions. Roll calls had not been taken. Questions had been suggested in the hearing room by newsgatherers and put by the Senators. Finally, the defense represented...
...best method of arriving at agreement as to the relative strength of our navies would be, I think, to delegate the matter to a commission of two, one American and one Englishman. Naval experts should not be permitted to embarrass the deliberations of these two statesmen. . . . I feel that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Hoover or the Earl of Balfour and Mr. Hughes would agree where no conference of admirals or experts could...
...right of the presbytery so to reject a pastor was denied by decisions in the courts. The matter was taken to the House of Lords, the Queen, the House of Commons. All sustained the court decisions...
...court, the five o'clock floor, besides' the promised meeting in marble halls for contest in oratory. Such is the flight of fancy. But one can hardly expect that so great a contradiction to the present tenets of the Law School will be allowed. Indeed, if one ponders the matter, there comes a sudden dawning that the debate is hardly an outside activity; that here is merely a step in training for the Great World that lies without the door; that the midnight oil will have to last just a little longer...