Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footnote said: "In the coining of apt phrases, the Senator from Idaho has no equal. Speaking of Mexico, recently, in an attack on the foreign policy of the administration, he spoke words that many think will go ringing down the ages. He said: 'God has made us neighbors; let justice make us friends...
...President of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. From it stepped Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, Pierre S. duPont, and a committee of 14 Baltimorans. The party proceeded to a banquet given by the. Southern Maryland Society (composed of Maryland Republicans and Democrats), where, having eaten, Dr. Butler spoke...
...Congress owe their position to being widows or wives of onetime Congressmen, not to their own merits; that women in Washington "pull the strings of power"-all this said Miss Vera Bloom last week in Washington. Miss Bloom, daughter of Congressman Sol Bloom, Democrat of New York, spoke at the second world welfare conference of the Women's Universal Alliance. Miss Bloom also said: "Mrs. Coolidge is worth $1,000,000 a year to the Republican Party. Her grace and charm are real assets in the White House and contribute much to the prestige of the Administration." Conference delegates...
Prince Valerian Ossinski provided the only (mild) sensation of the week when he protested to the League that the Swiss police were guarding him against assassination so effectively that he was virtually a prisoner in his own hotel. Soon League officials persuaded the Swiss to desist. Prince Ossinski later spoke before the Conference, urging all nations to cancel their War debts, lower immigration barriers, and join with Soviet Russia in a program of universal disarmament. He spoke effectively, and some dozens of delegates crowded down near the rostrum, applauded...
...York Times spoke out too, saying in connection with its employe's attempted exploit: "Though it may be true that a wise question is half of wisdom, it is also true that even a fool can ask questions which a wise man cannot answer...