Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over the United States and a politically inclined National Administration will be strongly tempted to acquiesce in such a condition. Elections will continuously turn on the rigid or languid execution of the Liquor Law, as they do now in Prohibition States. The ever-present issue will confuse and prevent clear and clean-cut popular decisions on the most important national questions, and the politics of the Nation will be demoralized as the politics of States have been through this cause. The issue will never be settled...
...President and Vice President of Argentina must be Roman Catholics and must have been born in Argentina. Similarly the King of England must be a Protestant. But there is no law to prevent the President of the U. S. from being a Mohammedan...
...Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties to prevent him from concurring in the scalding Supreme opinion thereon. Now the "Best Minds" are no longer referred to as such, but Mr. Chief Justice hears that his onetime party's Nominee "probably has the largest mind in America" and is a "planetary thinker." No opinion is required...
...chemical stain to be employed would remain indelible for about three days and then wear off. He refused to divulge the color of the stain, explaining that to do so before election day might cause unscrupulous party workers to stain the hands of opposition voters in advance and thus prevent them from voting...
...Sally, two years younger than Becky, began to play polo before her sister, when organized polo for women was an absurd novelty. Becky started to play two years ago; both are aware that women can never be as good at the game as men but that doesn't prevent them from getting enormously excited about...