Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right of the presbytery so to reject a pastor was denied by decisions in the courts. The matter was taken to the House of Lords, the Queen, the House of Commons. All sustained the court decisions...
...these things, President-Reject Smith's "message to the American people"; all except an appeal for money to pay for the dead donkey. Surrounded by 200 friends in a Fifth Avenue radio-studio, Governor Smith sounded a party tucket to a donkey by no means deceased. He said...
...Kernel of the speech was yet another thought. The President-Reject said: "While it is true that every party must adhere to its fundamental principles, obstruction and blockade for the sole purpose of embarrassing the party in power are not calculated to promote the best interests of the country. It would be regarded as a constructive achievement if the Democratic party at Washington were to formulate a program, adopt it, offer it to the Congress of the United States and there defend it. A refusal on the part of the party in power to accept it or their inability...
...blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators on the party's potential leadership...
...Governor Roosevelt). If by some pressure or prospect this should ever come to pass, a Senator "Al" Smith of New York would without doubt furnish scenes and situations-and perhaps some legislation-remarkable in his own day, memorable for political prosperity. ¶ S. Rurok, Manhattan impresario, offered the President-Reject $50,000 for ten debates on Prohibition against famed prohibiters, beginning (perhaps) with Senator Borah at Madison Square Garden...