Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Glass said that the President, by his Commission and Investigation, had smothered the Prohibition issue. As a sponsor of the $250,000 appropriation for the expenses of the National Law Enforcement Commission, Senator Glass insisted that Prohibition was to have been the prime purpose of that inquiry. He cried...
Nowhere could Senator Glass find that President Hoover was pledged never to try to alter the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act: "In the campaign the most he ever said was that he did 'not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment' but he nowhere has said that he might not advocate modification...
Undismayed, last week at the failure (because of a visual defect) of his Candidate Charles E. Weir to pass the physical examination for the U. S. Naval Academy, Congressman De Priest said he would continue to appoint Negroes to fill his district's vacancies in the service schools...
...Said Chicago's Republican Tribune: "If Mrs. Hoover's Southern tea party has driven the Southern fanatics away from union with Northern fanatics, it has been the best use of tea since the night it was thrown into Boston Harbor...
...slender, swart Second Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Washington, drove last week with a friend through Fairfax, Va., was halted by two state prohibition officers. Fisticuffing followed, from which Djenany Bey emerged with two black eyes. Arrested, he produced his diplomatic card, claimed immunity, was released. The officers said he had been driving wildly. Djenany Bey declared that the Turkish Government would demand a public apology. Witnesses of the encounter suspected that much of the trouble arose because the dusky diplomat had been mistaken for a Negro...