Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cameramen had obtained the Nominee's consent to pose with George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, famed rightfielder of the New York team. But when the cameramen went to fetch Fielder Ruth, he declined. "It's a matter of politics," he was reported to have said...
...mean the remotest intention on my part of abandoning civic duties nor retirement from the life of struggle and responsibility which are the lot of every soldier. I know there are plenty of situations in the military, administrative, political, or civic field which I can occupy and which no matter how modest they may seem in comparison with the Presidency I now hold . . . could give me opportunity to discharge my duties as a man of the revolution...
...rebellion of the Roman Catholic clergy against the laws established in the matter of religion continues, and because of this the executive has dictated measures necessary to enforce compliance with these laws. As the clergymen of the creeds other than the Roman Catholics have submitted to these laws during the year of 1927, permission for the establishment of six Protestant churches has been granted, and in 1928 nine similar permits have been issued. Likewise, in accordance with the laws, permits have been granted to the clergymen of American and other nationalities, allowing them to conduct their religious teachings...
...lover that Biographer Nicholson makes his glowing portrait of Old Hickory. And there is in the drawing no chiaroscuro of virtue and vice. Just as Andrew Jackson believed a thing to be all black or all white, so he has been painted all whiteman. His fiery tempers are matters of righteous indignation; his gullibility a matter of holding a man right until he is proved wrong...
...look upon the Bible as a record of experience. No matter what knocks we receive in life, we find, reading the Bible, that others have received similar knocks. It is a true book of experience...