Word: right
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member had nothing whatsoever to do with the press, but was concerned entirely with censorship of the mails. I fought organization of this Board, considering it both stupid and unnecessary, but after its organization, persuaded the President to make me a member that I might minimize its activities. The right to exclude newspapers from the mails for seditious utterances was absolutely and entirely in the hands of the Postmaster General, and the manner in which he used it caused me to protest so vigorously that it broke off all personal relations between Mr. Burleson and myself...
...this part of the country, when someone jumps into a gap in the conversation with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone's sister, or your aunt's cousin, picked up in her car a woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went...
...Stop right there...
...will reserve the right to criticize anything I think is right...
...Where'd they get the money? Why, right out of the rabbit...