Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not seem credible that mere blindness could be responsible for this insistence that the country be burdened with an enormous army and navy that it clearly does not want and will continue to reject. It is almost impossible to believe that the Administration is so rapt with the dreams of the past that it is incapable of discerning "the signs of the times"--signs which have been repeatedly thrust upon its attention. Rather more is it probable that Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors are attempting, in a last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments...
...German American Citizens' League for instance, passed a resolution urging President-elect Harding "to consider the number of Americans of German descent," when choosing his Cabinet, and another calling on his administration to reject the peace pacts of Versailles and St. Germain. George Sylvester Vireck, of the Committee, said he was prepared to suggest "Cabinet-sized German Americans," if he were asked to do so. It is doubtful if he will be asked; the United States is not interested in pan-anything, least of all pan-Germanism. No doubt there are German-Americans who are "cabinet-sized"; the point...
...carrying out to the fullest extent its program. Such a course, after the unmistakable voice of the elections, could only be followed through stubbornness and petty vexation; it seems unlikely that this will be the case. Vice versa, Congress, feeling that everything Democratic is to be shunned, may reject many helpful suggestions merely because they are originated by the losing party, thus handicapping itself and the country by partizan action...
...expression to their own individuality, which can of course only mean their own emptiness." The president of Columbia finds that our whole system of education is pretty well discredited in the public mind, although he does not quite make it plain why a public wandering after false gods should reject an educational system which is headed in the same direction...
...Manager's office. The period for which the guest is invited is two weeks at a time. A member may not invite the same guest oftener than once in three months, and may not have more than two guests at the same time. The committee reserves the right to reject any member's application...