Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have listened to a great deal of public and very caustic criticism of Tammany, and I asked myself the question: How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right? . . . Worthy Grand Sachem, I could speak on this platform for an hour and a half on the record and history of the Tammany Society as dedicated to the principles set forth in the Constitution of this Government. ... I will conclude with a congratulation and thanks to the society of which I am proud to be a member and an officer...
There 60-year-old Bluebeard Drat said to his police guards, "Kill me right away, don't bother me with questions about women...
Approachable, candid, he was a hero to many a cub reporter. He said: "I am a quasi-public servant. I have no more right to refuse an interview to a newspaperman than to a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss...
...architect and artist of the building I possess the right to insist that the building shall be constructed as planned, and even after the completion of the building I have the right to insist that the structure shall be maintained as I built...
Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...