Word: sham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...honesty" between Hoover and Smith; to call the Democrats "a party of abandoned issues" (including the League of Nations, which Mr. Hughes himself abandoned), to jibe at the Democrats' declarations on the Tariff, to imply that the Smith farm program was "political quackery," to call the Prohibition issue a "sham battle." to hail Prosperity...
...however, take issue with Hooverizer Hughes on the subject of platform etiquette. He conserved radio time by hushing the gallery orators and plunging straight into Prohibition. His text was Hooverizer Hughes' remark, a few days prior in Missouri, about the Prohibition issue being a "sham battle...
...said: "I will assure the distinguished Republican representative that this is no sham battle. This is a real fight ; and it is not a fight upon the merits or the demerits of the Eighteenth Amendment or the sustaining legislation; it is a fight against bribery, corruption, lawlessness, intemperance and disregard and disrespect...
...American people do not fight sham battles when these questions are at issue...
...William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary: "Unless the nations of the world follow the example of Great Britain and show a real desire to curtail their armaments, the compact will be nothing but a hollow sham...