Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spanish-so they said. We discovered it at the head of a column of odds and ends in the Picayune the first day (in New Orleans); heard twenty people use it the second; inquired what it meant the third; adopted it and got facility in swinging it the fourth...
...loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and receptive microphones at a dinner in Manhattan. Told that there was a telephone call from an intimate friend, the President said: "Tell him I'm too busy...
Growth in favorable sentiment toward Prohibition, said Senator Sheppard, had made possible this extension of the Volstead Act. Furthermore, the Senator was annoyed by last fortnight's decision in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, clearly exculpating a purchaser of liquor from any guilt in the transportation of what he had bought (TIME, Oct. 14). Senator Sheppard therefore offered to the Senate an amendment adding purchase to manufacture, transportation, possession, sale and other activities forbidden under the Volstead...
...referred to the Judiciary Committee, appeared unlikely to reappear during the present Congressional session. But it precipitated a storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska's Norris were opposed. The Anti-Saloon League weaseled, said...
...Customs censor ship was the barring of Voltaire's Candide, for centuries a classic, yet officially considered unfit for U. S. consumption. Other famed books barred from U. S. ports include unexpurgated editions of the Arabian Nights, various of the works of Aristophanes, Balzac, Rousseau, Havelock Ellis. Ridiculous, said Senator Cutting, was a situation in which "two-by-four clerks" could decide what the U. S. public might read. Allied with Senator Cutting were Senators Borah, Wheeler, Tydings, Norris, La Follette...