Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Mr. Garner: "I want to predict right now that after this bill goes to the Senate and comes back to the House in conference, it will carry reductions of between $400,000,000 and $500,000,000. ... We must have a little steel down the back of the House conferees and maintain the bill we finally pass. ... I haven't the slightest fear but that reductions can go between $300,000,000 and $350,000,000 and still have a surplus...
...much money to get nominated, and 2) with using money improperly (in Mr. Vare's case) and accepting money improperly (in Mr. Smith's). The charges stood substantiated by the Senate's own investigating (the famed James Reed) committee. The issues which towered were 1) what right had the Senate to judge a state's representative ? 2) what procedure should the Senate follow...
Persons who ignored this forensic defense were inclined to believe that the League investigators are right in believing that: 1) An international traffic in women (with and without their consent) is steadily carried on through smoothly organized and richly financed channels; 2) The prevailing demand for French women makes that country a leading source of supply but also causes many women recruited from Eastern Europe to declare falsely that they are French; 3) The chief regions of demand are Egypt and South America; and the leading cities of consumption are Alexandria, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro; 4) The chief...
...been lost a black valise containing cassock, robes, crucifix. The Archbishop was distraught, for the crucifix (inlaid with four two-carat diamonds and many a sapphire) bore the instriptions: "Worn by Cardinal Farley as auxiliary Bishop of New York;" "Presented by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes to the Right Rev. John J. Dunn...
...been given a unanimous vote of confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand dollars and probably would have been much happier elsewhere, but I am not to be browbeaten or persuaded by a gift of money. An Episcopal minister has the right to hold his post for life or during good behavior. Much as I regret all this publicity, it is a case of fight from...