Word: may
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broom sweeps clean.' A temporary National Prohibition Law as a war measure may be effective. It is urged to stimulate war production in the emergency, and to take temptation from our soldiers, though it is doubtful whether the serious loss to the national revenues, which it will entail, may not outweigh the actual benefits. The immediately useful operation of such a law . . . is not convincing evidence of its ultimate tendency and result. The community must summer and winter it for years...
Observers who may have wondered where Senator Borah puts his mighty mane when he goes to bed, on the pillow or sticking out over the edge, learned at least one thing about his sleeping habits last week. When sleeping in a strange place, Senator Borah puts his pocketbook under his pillow...
...Smith carries New York with Roosevelt's help, history may go one way. If Roosevelt wins (nearly every one concedes that he should win) and Smith loses, then some of history's advance chapters may need recasting...
...Governor may succeed himself in Virginia. The Byrd regime ends in 1930. The Byrd influence will not end, however. In managing his State machine, Governor Byrd has the aid of his other younger brother, third of the famed "Tom, Dick and Harry" trio, Thomas Boiling Byrd, who is also in politics. He also has the aid, now, of elements which were unfavorable to him when he ran for office, viz. Senator Carter Glass and Publisher John Stewart Bryan of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Above all he has the aid of that cohesive spirit of aristocracy-in-democracy, which, despite...
...such applications were courteously refused?for Old Paul von Hindenburg had said: "May there be no public observance of the day. I shall be away from Berlin, somewhere in the quiet of the country...