Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been wide open long enough. I am ready to compromise, however, and in the interest of Congressional decency and cleanliness and to get the Prohibition alley-cat off the backs of so-called American statesmen, I will agree to vote a liberal pension to Wayne Wheeler,* provided he will move out of the country and into some land like Soviet Russia or Mexico, where his peculiar talents will be appreciated and poison gas is more popular...
...Meanwhile, last week in Manhattan, Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler, president of Columbia University, suggested that the U. S. move its capital to Westerville, Ohio, the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. Then Clarence Darrow, dexterous Chicago criminal lawyer, told Manhattanites that it was a "civic duty to violate the Prohibition...
...McAndrew was bland. "The investigations," he said, "have all been conducted on the same plane. I have been given no bill of requirements to fill out and no specific educational policies to defend." Then, with exquisite tact, he added: ''I have been in Chicago, altogether, seven* years. Since things move five times as fast in Chicago as elsewhere, those seven years amount to 35 actual years. That is long enough to absorb the Chicago atmosphere...
...acquire the club table system, they will continue, because in the first place, they will have such companionship as to divert their attention from the common occupation of criticizing their food. And Secondly, when one men have eaten in groups, they dislike to split up and they can't move the table group elsewhere...
...Senator Shipstead sees the Farmer-Labor party dwindling around him; he is fast becoming a man without a party. Perhaps his next move will be to embrace Republicanism in name-but never in principle...