Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stood Michigan's Cramton to say: "It is interesting to me to see what the policy is to be of the wet block in the House as presented by its newly chosen leader, the gentleman from Maryland. The policy of our other friend from Maryland, John Philip Hill, was to destroy the Eighteenth Amendment by authorizing beer and wine, but it is apparent that the gentleman from Maryland [Mr. Linthicum], the new leader, has on his banner, 'Hamstring enforcement...
Maryland's Palmisano: ". . . The Prohibition administration has sanctioned the blackjacking of citizens. ... I say, let us eliminate the criminals who are employed to enforce this Volstead...
Since the opening of the present Conference, Seiior Pueyrredon has unalterably insisted it should make some definite pronouncement against high tariff barriers-that is to say, against high U. S. tariffs. By hard, driving diplomacy he got such a pronouncement tentatively recognized for insertion into the preamble of a stuffed-shirt treaty draft reorganizing the Pan-American Union.-Last week U. S. pressure resulted in the striking out of Pueyr-redon's preamble clause. From Buenos Aires came, allegedly, instructions that he should knuckle under and sign the treaty draft...
...Government breaks down? Are we to see our American citizens butchered? I am not speaking of sporadic disorders but of cases in which the Government itself is unable to function. It is a principle of international law that under such circumstances another Government has the right, I will not say to intervene, but to interpose in a temporary manner to protect the lives and interests of its nationals...
Throughout the week, interest focused on David Lloyd George, now Liberal leader, but long estranged from Asquith. What would he say? Would he conceal his pleasure at being left alive to dominate alone throughout the Liberal sphere...