Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizen. This made me a citizen of two countries simultaneously. According to British law, I was British. According to American law, I was American. Lawyers differ even now as to which nationality I belong to technically. I travel under a British passport and always mean the Americans when I say "we"-not such a wholly illogical position for one of the earliest members of the English Speaking Union...
...again descended from his eleven-car million-dollar special train to spread light and learning in those sections of the country which are unaccustomed to the effulgence of the Brown Derby. ... He misrepresents, distorts, bisects sentences and employs periphrastic phrases to make his points. . . . The candidate neglects to say that three of his own chief financial backers in this campaign-Messrs. Young, Brady and Ryan-are also leaders of the power trust...
...Cleveland, Secretary Davis of Labor addressed the International Association of Public Employment Services. Said he: "On the basis used in computing more recent unemployment totals, it would have been possible to say that in 1921 not six but twelve million Americans were out of a job. We know that those millions of jobless were put back to work, and in a remarkably brief period of time our country had reached a prosperity higher than any before in our history. I have no hesitancy in saying that for this remarkable feat the American people are largely indebted to Herbert Hoover...
...course, it is very fine for the Republican National Committee and the Republican Chairman to disown all this. It is very easy for them to say, 'We disclaim knowledge of it and responsibility...
...There is something on the track. There is something standing in the way of a clear-cut statement. ... I will leave it to your imagination, but let me say this, putting it in as mild a way as I can, the Administration in Washington must, to some slight degree, have been in sympathy with the propaganda that was put out through this country by the joint committee [Power Lobby] of the National Electric Light Association...