Word: target
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...target of Lawyer Gabaldon's attack, which historians called the most bellicose formal pronouncement ever made by a Filipino Commissioner in the 30 years the U. S. has governed the Territory, was "Powerful forces that you do not see . . . enormous sums of American capital...
...ignorance of the ineffable mysteries of national politics by declaring: "If I were writing the Democratic platform for 1928 there wouldn't be any. I would issue a short statement, brief and to the point, that platforms are out of style; either they mean something and are a target or they mean nothing and are a camouflage; in the one case dangerous and in the other case dishonest. Besides, they're boresome; they take up time in campaign speeches that ought to be given to electing the nominees...
...famous brethren, and the more noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn, and few attempts to deny them their titles have been made...
...party service, partly because he revels in smoldering oratory, Candidate Reed stuck close to his stock speech on G. O. P. "boodlers" and misdeeds, seasoned with a few peppercorns for Tammany Hall. At Dallas, he specially flayed Secretary Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation...
...penetrating gamma rays might be deflected from a metal target, as in simple x-ray tubes, and reveal unknown properties of bodies...