Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About Statesman Stimson pressed newsgatherers. Said he with startling informal ity: "I absolutely refuse to shoot off my mouth about my new job until I see my new chief." But he was by no means silent, for he had plenty to say about the Philippines. The proposition to impose duties upon sugar and other products from the Islands to the U. S. vexed him greatly...
...Damn your Jesuit brother!" roared Clemenceau, "I say you are M. le Di-recteur de I'École Supérieure de Guerre, and all the Jesuits in creation can't alter that fact...
...Thus, with a deed, the Catholic Church received the most illustrious and possibly the most devout of her warrior sons, the sole generalissimo who ever commanded ten million men in arms, the great and humble Catholic who reviewed his victory thus: "Without claiming the intervention of a miracle, I say that when, at a moment in history, a clear view is given to a man and he finds later that that clear view has determined movements of enormous consequences in the conduct of a formidable war−then I hold that that clear view, which I think...
...Paris!" cried Foch when he assumed supreme command, "Paris has nothing to do with this matter! Paris is far away. We must stop the Germans where they are. We have only to say 'They shall not pass!' and they will not pass. . . . Three-fourths of the battle is won when the men know they are not going to retreat...
...only are no satisfactory data available with reference to the nominating process of those 'elected', but even less do we know about the circumstances of the election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each other by colour or in some other way, whether people voted in the same booths for both candidates, these and similar "details" are not known. Yet without such...