Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking to be permitted to exercise his talents in the U. S. Senate and his opponents are bitterly saying: "Ho, contemptible one! You have exploited our natural resources, palsied the arm of the Conservation Commission. To obtain your princely attorney fees, you have twiddled weak Governor Fuqua between your avaricious thumbs. For shame!" Last week, Mr. Sanders savagely denied that he was responsible for a new "invasion" of the Shreveport gas field by shoepolish interests. Governor Fuqua returned, unopened, a letter of protest from the chairman...
...news gatherers King Alfonso said: "I have been and am still an ardent partisan of the League of Nations. . . . But, if we do not obtain the definite satisfaction which is due to Spain [i.e., a permanent seat on the League Council (TIME, March 29 et seq. LEAGUE)], we could be induced not to have the same interest in the League as heretofore" (i.e., an intimation that Spain is not irrevocably resolved upon withdrawing from the League, but still hopes for a permanent seat...
...will succeed President Bamardes next October refused to comment, but Acting President of the Chamber Committee of Foreign affairs said last week: "Brazil's action means closer relations with the American republics, especially the United States. It became inevitable when it was seen that Latin America would not obtain a seat in the League Council. Woodrow Wilson's peace ideals are our ideals, but as a nation we cannot see how they can be attained by League membership...
...failure to peg the franc, resigned. Deputies of the Right, theoretically foes of Briand, paradoxically continued to support his Left Cabinet lest the franc collapse. Deputies of the Left, angered at M. Briand's disregard of their views, deserted him. Though M. Briand could and did obtain a vote of confidence by a majority of 114, the situation had become a hopeless tangle. Stabilization of the franc could not be accomplished with the freak support of a Chamber "majority of enemies...
...would suggest that as a penance you be compelled to supply a modern machine gun for Mr. Busch and obtain a permit for him for a day's hunting in the grounds of some Old Ladies' Home...