Word: seeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britten's reply to Secretary Kellogg was: i) that he had not contravened the President's power over foreign policy, since he did not seek to change a U. S. policy but to further the policy of Anglo-American naval equality long-since laid down; 2) that the Constitution charges Congress to provide, maintain and regulate the Army & Navy, and 3) that he had not violated the Logan Act since the subject for discussion was neither a "dispute" nor a "controversy." "My proposal has to do with peace," Mr. Britten observed...
...such criticism Mr. Britten might have replied that 1) he had long loomed as large on the Naval Affairs Committee as its last chairman, the late Representative Butler of Pennsylvania; 2) that publicity-seeking is not necessarily reprehensible, depending entirely on what you seek to promote, yourself or a good idea, and 3) that one is not necessarily a Big Navy man out of sheer blood-thirst, that Big Navy men might gladly become Little Navy men if all other Big Navy men would join them...
Addressed to "the scientifically minded," the circular declared that it did not seek the attention of those satisfied with "the Apostles or the Nicene Creed, the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus, and the verity of the miracle stories of the old and new Testament." God goes by many another name among Quakers: "the Seed, the Inner Light, the In-speaking Voice, the Christ within, the Word . . . The Hidden Dynamo, The Super-self, The World-father." And "religion as we understand it has nothing to fear from science...
Professor Leonide Kulik, Russian scientist who risked his life to look a little longer on a stone, last week "was rescued by the relief expedition sent into the tundra wilderness of Siberia to seek him. No marvel of jasper or onyx, this; it is a large rock with a fused crust, composed of iron and silicates. It is the largest meteorite ever found on the earth, and Prof. Kulik has been looking at it ever since last summer...
...Smith thinks the Congress is the medium through which the Democracy should start working up to 1932. The Democrats are now a weak minority in the Congress. Smith is "just as anxious" as before his nomination to see the Democrats come to glory. Smith has resolved never again to seek public office. But, if his anxiety for his party is as great as he says, might he not some day be persuaded to let public office seek him? Might he not, perhaps, be persuaded to enter Congress? This could easily be effected through a resignation from one friend (Senator Wagner...