Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chambre des Deputes, housed within the august Palais Bourbon, presented such an indescribable babel of confusion last week that correspondents seriously pondered whether they should refer to it as a madhouse. They were saved from this scandalous impropriety by a sly wag of the Boulevards who whispered a knowing question in their ears: "Eh bien, Messieurs, avez-vous vu 'Les Folies Bourbon?'" As "The Folies Bourbon," the Chamber passed one of its most chaotic weeks...
...will apply rigorously, methodically, obstinately, with a system of cool tenacity which is typical of Facismo, all our laws to the Alto Adige. I refer both to the laws this Chamber has voted and to those it will vote in the future. We will render the Alto Adige Italian because it is Italian, both historically and geographically. The present boundary at the Brenner Pass is a frontier traced by the infallible hand...
...Governors, President Coolidge addressed a letter urging them to be represented at the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety called by Secretary Hoover for March 23. Mr. Coolidge reminded the Governors: "I scarcely need to refer to the importance of the subjects at issue. Nearly 24,000 of our citizens were killed and probably more than 500,000 were hurt by street and highway accidents during the last year...
...doubt that the counterfeiting was undertaken with far wider aims in view than the mere enrichment of the counterfeiters. Scarcely anyone questioned last week that its purpose was to finance a putsch designed to set a king upon the vacant throne of Hungary. Count Bethlen himself referred to the counterfeiters in Parliament as "misguided patriots." Regent Horthy refused to refer to them at all-a most significant gesture on the part of a "ruler" who should nominally have been the first to condemn such acts. The identity of the individual in whose favor the putsch was to have been launched...
...days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a hickory cudgel. Every reporter was trained to use a shotgun, and in most composing rooms a portrait of Andrew Jackson looked down with sombre eyes upon a neat rack of buggy-whips. Newspaper men still quarrel. Most of them do so with a certain reticence. Respecting the dignity of their differences, they...