Word: reasonableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizen Coolidge said he was careful to take no part in the primary campaigns. He found no reason for his participation for "the party had plenty of [presidential] material . . . and the candidate should really be the choice of the people themselves." He admitted that a President could nominate his successor, but such a nomination, he felt, would often prove a handicap to the nominee...
...Austria's progress is blocked," he said, "by a political tension, for much of which the present Government is held responsible, although unjustly. Long-continued agitations and accumulated hatred, which so far as concerns my person would be bearable, have also without reason been cast on my priestly office and my Church...
...President sped to Warsaw, consulted earnestly with the real master of Poland, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, who insists upon remaining technically War Minister, though actually Dictator. Emerging from this conference, poor puppet President Moscicki intimated that the Marshal had again refused to accept the Prime Ministry himself and saw no reason for accepting the resignation of M. Kasimir Bartel, just because he thinks he needs a rest...
...great arsenal in Mukden is going to be transformed into an automobile factory, by far the largest in the East. We shall make 'Chinese Dragon' cars and also 'Baby Dragons.' I see no reason why one day China may not export these cars to Europe and America...
...great mass of his public cherishes him for quite another reason: dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...