Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disconnected. . . . Mr. Keyes is in bed, but says he will think it over. I think he was serious about that. . . . At Mr. McLean's residence we reached some one on the telephone who refused to give him the message. . . . Mr. Gooding is in bed, but says: 'All right, I will come over.' . . . Mr. Stewart gave a jocular reply. I do not know just what he did say. . . . Mr. Heflin is reported as being ill and cannot come. . . ." Eight other Senators said they were sick. Twelve could not be reached. Many were routed...
...quit midway and concede the debate to the President. There was, however, one sharp aphorism reminiscent of the Coolidge first known to fame. It was: "Government price fixing, once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared...
...Colonial Secretary, recently dipped in hot tea and then in scalding coffee, brooded, last week, over the lobby of the House of Commons. By tea and coffee this blatantly brand new statue of the late famed Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1911) had been toned down to a decorous brown patina. Right Honorable Members looked up at "Joe" Chamberlain, the redoubtable right hand man of the great Gladstone; then they drifted from the Lobby into the Chamber, and there heard "Joe's" son, Sir Austen Chamberlain read an amazing tissue of threats and imprecations against Soviet Russia (see above...
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...While marines stood on guard about the Parliament House the treaty text was commended by a vote of confidence and cabled to Washington. It provides: 1) that the U. S. undertake to preserve peace in Nicaragua and the continuity of the Nicaraguan Government; 2) that accordingly the right of intervention in Nicaragua be extended to the U. S. by mutual consent; 3) that a U. S. financial adviser and receiver-general of revenues assume the task of rehabilitating the finances of Nicaragua with dictatorial powers; 4) that a loan of $20,000,000 from exclusively U. S. sources is declared...