Word: referes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge-for-President Club of Chicago which sought to boost his candidacy for 1924: " I have given no thought to the matter to which you refer, and I am merely doing what I can to take up the burdens of my office. . . . I am sure you will understand that if I ask your help to this end, rather than in the way you have suggested, it shows no lack of appreciation of your kindness...
...feature of the new agreement is that if the U. S. joins the Permanent International Court of Justice, the two Governments will consider making a new agreement, under the terms of which they will refer all disputes governed by the Treaty to that court. In the last three months the U. S. has renewed similar treaties with France, Great Britain, Japan...
...refused, despite the advice of J. Ramsey McDonald, Parliamentary Labor leader. They were then suspended by a vote of 258 to 70. The Rev. Campbell then took up the cry of " murderers." He was suspended by a vote of 276 to 60. Buchanan soon after heard Sir George Hamilton refer to Emanuel Shinwell as a " Jew." Shinwell said he was proud of the fact, but Buchanan called the entire Conservative Party " white-livered cowards," and " dirty dogs." After he had accused the Speaker of partiality, his suspension was carried by 286 votes...
...sequel to the nth power - the 27th item in a series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga - The Rover Boys at Big Bear Lake or The Camps of the Rival Cadets...
...Best Rodeo - The West a-Hootin' August and New York, we understand, will see one of the biggest and best exhibitions of a certain Americant art that has been displayed so far-an art as completely and typically American as the first Olympic Games were Greek. We refer to bull-dogging, bronco-busting, roping et al. The Frontier may have passed but the sports of the Frontier survive. Sans six-guns, perhaps; sans Deadwood Dick's Last Chance Saloon and a picturesque if sanguinary revolver-practice; but with the spirit of that Frontier alive for all that...