Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prohibition by declaring it was a mere segment of the investigation. . . . I am no fanatical Prohibitionist. I am not an unreasoning vituperative zealot. I have never permitted any ecclesiastical despot* to control my thought or conduct. But I am for the Prohibition law and for a thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year or in two. Why, the stupendous task of investigating all lawlessness and of a readjustment...
With the convention over, observers waited to see whether the political hatreds and animosities of last year's national campaign could be successfully transposed to a state election in the South...
...That's all right," General Dawes answered. "I'll see the Goddess of Liberty in just a minute, there are a dozen old reparations friends of mine here I want to talk...
...holds together toughly through many intricacies of men and motives. To answer people's questions as to why he considers it necessary or important to write authentically, seriously about U. S. gangsters, Author Burnett quotes shrewd Renaissance Reporter Macchiavelli : "You sow ripen." He hemlock, and thinks that expect to see "crime, the ears of corn Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality" (TIME, June 17). As a creative writer, he is interested in all things vital, however irrelevant they may seem to the scheme of things orderly...
...into a truck, been arrested for driving while under the influence of narcotics, and was at large under bond. Said Senator Heflin: "I am deeply pained . . . to learn that my son has been drinking again. . . . My enemies who are willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect him to be - a fine and useful man to his day and generation." Said Junior Heflin: "I drank about a pint of grain alcohol mixed with two parts of ginger...