Word: tempered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time the resolution had become a far more dangerous thing to the Republicans than the original resolution to which Senator Smoot had agreed. But the temper of the Senate was apparent from the votes on the King and the Norris amendments, and the Republicans allowed the resolution to be passed viva voce...
Since no French Cabinet existed, owing to the fall of Briand, who had not yet reformed his ministry (see FRANCE), the representatives of the Powers assembled at Geneva delayed taking action of any sort until the temper of the forthcoming French Government should be known...
...Council thereupon met in secret without the Germans. Sir Austen Chamberlain was alleged to have completely lost his temper, and roundly berated Dr. Unden with "violent threats." When the session broke up "the Terrible Swede" issued forth "with jaw set, and eyes gleaming with anger." He was alleged to have declared "Sir Austen's language was the most disgraceful I have ever experienced. I will not change my point of view or my stand. My instructions are specific to vote against the admission of any nation except Germany to a Council seat...
...twice winning election for Wilson; the story of ths passage of the Federal Reserve Act; gives the impressions House formed of all the leaders of England, Germany and France; tells the methods of diplomacy which House used; tells a hundred incidents, such as how the imperturbable House lost his temper with the British Ambassador at Washington, how Von Bethmann-Hollweg explained his famous phrase, "a scrap of paper...
...offing, a flood of investigations seems to be in prospect, but how much the Republican action can hold back the flood is dubious. Even if a committee reports adversely on a proposed investigation, the Senate is likely to order the investigation if it continues in its present temper...