Word: nape
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...other attributes of the late President. Samuel G. Blythe put well the contrast between Cox and Wilson by asking each what was the outstanding feature of the President's office. Said Wilson: "The power of decisions." Said Cox: "The power to take a situation by the nape of the neck and the seat of the trousers and shake a result out of it." If William G. McAdoo is out of the race, then Cox and Reed are prepared to take the League issue- the one by the nape of the neck and the other, the seat of the trousers...