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...said, if I were President, and I should find the Treasury menaced by an unjust obligation of $4,000,000,000, such as the soldiers' bonus, and I could not summon enough votes from my party to sustain my veto, I would resign...
While these arguments were being heard, Senate committees continued to summon witnesses...
...been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...
...once they began to summon witnesses from along the Mexican border. The investigation was going to open by attacking the Attorney General on the grounds that he had not interfered with oil companies who fostered revolutions in Mexico...
...once the Committee began to summon everyone mentioned in the telegrams. A. Mitchell Palmer testified that he had acted temporarily for Mr. McLean, while the latter's regular attorney was out of town. He declared that he had made no attempts to pull wires for the publisher, and denied connection with anyone else mentioned in the case...