Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...within the Republican ranks, loud then the catcalls across the trenches. Brigadier Bingham protested that, sadly ignorant of tariff warfare and needing counsel, he had followed a natural course. Great-bodied Lieutenant-General Watson, nominal chief of all the Republican forces, cried faintly that his subordinate had done quite right. Tall, thin, generalissimo Smoot tried to tell how he had warned his ignorant comrade to send the man Eyanson away, which was done. But these cries were drowned by the angry outbursts of Insurgent Brigadiers Norris and La Follette...
...Money. . . . They cannot pay for everything themselves because they are not all little rich girls, and it would not be right in this democracy for the rich to pay for the poor ones, so the dues must be the same for all, and that does not bring in enough money...
They asked him if he thought he was the whole Board. Said he: "We haven't had a divided vote in the Board. I can, therefore, reasonably be held responsible. . . . You have the right fellow here and if it has been wrong you can crucify...
...strongest figure in present day Austria. Without even waiting for any official announcement of policy from the new Chancellor, without even learning who was to compose his new cabinet, editors of all political faiths sprang to the conclusion that with good Policeman Schober in command everything would be all right...
...watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai, was put to prison, after his bank account showed 2,000,000 illicit yen ($960,000) purported to be derived from promotion of private railways projects while he was Minister of Railways...