Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permit me to enlighten your omniscient Religious Editor. The command to put the blood of the pascal lamb on the two door-posts and on the lintel (Exodus 12, 7) was meant only for that one time, i. e. the time of the actual exodus. This is the accepted opinion of all Talmudic authorities and it is also self evident, since the mark was meant as a signal for the destroying-angel who killed the first born of Egypt to pass over the houses of the Israelites, hence, in subsequent generations when there was no destroying-angel killing Egyptian first...
...Attorney-General, rustic John Garibaldi Sargent of Vermont, to investigate, last April. Now, in the pressure of the presidential campaign, it had popped out that the lease and its renewal were beyond doubt illegal and voidable. It was also apparent that Attorney-General Sargent had been withholding an adverse opinion until after Election...
President Coolidge ordered the immediate issuance of the opinion. As expected, the opinion was adverse. The lease was voided. It was exceedingly embarrassing (see THE CABINET...
...York Evening Sun (Republican) reported the incident as follows in its news columns: "His [Attorney General Sargent's] hand was forced . . . when President Coolidge, taking cognizance of the charges of Senator Walsh, bluntly told the Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
...contract. . . ." Dr. Work apparently ignored or failed to comprehend the whole import of what Senator Walsh had said. For Senator Walsh had qualified his view that the option was inescapable, by saying: ". . . except it [the U. S.] treats it [the lease] as void or voidable." Senator Walsh's opinion at that time was tentative. Further investigation of the Salt Creek affair was in store and Senator Walsh further said: "I have not been able to give the subject the study that it ought to have in order to arrive at a conclusion such as would be reached...