Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear that both political parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...
...time ever comes when it is apparent that the people, as a people do not propose to enforce it, then I venture to say they will take it out of the Constitution, and they ought to. No provision of this Constitution ought to be permitted to stand indefinitely against the will of the American people...
...politics withheld prediction. A speech is only a speech, they said, and thinking is only thinking. Lost arts, they said, are discussed at institutes of arts and sciences, but they remain, .after all, lost arts. U. S. politics remain U. S. politics. It is far too soon to say whether Senator Borah or any one else can transform the topic about which U. S. citizens think and feel the most, from the great Hush-Hush of the politicians in both parties to the one real issue of the campaign...
...heard your chairman say that the press men's lot has improved in recent years. That is a new experience to me. A Prime Minister's work is much harder than it used to be. Telephones and motor cars have added most distractingly to the daily labors of a Prime Minister. I wish none of them had ever been invented...
Nevertheless, it was mooted that Signer Mussolini would have something to say on the Franco-Jugoslav treaty when Parliament convenes next month, and that something, all conceded, would be quite up to Il Duce's usual pyrotechnical verbiage...