Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People tried to remember what and when William Howard Taft declared against the 18th Amendment. One declaration was in a letter which Mr. Taft wrote in June, 1918, to a gentleman of New Haven, Conn., who had asked his opinion of the then pending Amendment. He said...
...opposed to the presence of laws on the statute book that cannot be enforced and as such demoralize the enforcement of all laws. ... I am not in favor of a national amendment which should force twelve or fifteen great States into a sumptuary system which the public opinion and the real practices of the people of those States would not support. I think it is most unwise to fasten upon the United States a prohibitory system under the excitement of the War, which I do not hesitate to say every sensible supporter of Prohibition in the end will regret...
...comic incident of the week was the inexplicable leaking out of an old, secret Scotland Yard "Report on the Activities of James Ramsay MacDonald from 1916 to 1921." In the expert opinion of detectives who prepared the report, "Mr. MacDonald is a Constitutional Socialist and by no means a Bolshevist...
...present. The last rumor is the most picturesque, assuming that His Majesty, while at San Sebastian, had refused his signature to the Premier on several decrees of destitution of authorities that the Premier proposed to relieve of their positions for having been unfaithful to the regime. The national opinion knows the value of such tricks, but the good faith of the foreign opinions might be surprised by such misleading news and therefore it is convenient to make it known to the public that nothing has happened in Spain, and that nothing will happen, as there is lack of ambient...
...opinion that security prices have so far outrun demonstrated values, earning power and dividend returns that a material readjustment is necessary before they will again be attractive to the prudent investor...