Word: tend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true, acquired no enemies during that fractious period. As a state legislator, as a circuit judge, as a nine-term U.S. Representative (1907-21, 1923-27), he has deserved well of Tennessee and the vote there is his to a tabbycat. He is, moreover, pronouncedly dry. He would tend to make Kentucky safe, too, for the Democracy. Tennessee and Kentucky have 12 and 13 electoral votes respectively...
...concern. Finally the 1,000,000 workpeople who continue unemployed in Great Britain should be able to find many a job in the producing industries which Chancellor Churchill proposes to assist or partially subsidize. Therefore the votes of the unemployed and the votes of most laboring working people will tend to be drawn to the Conservative Program of foxy Chancellor Churchill...
...State to give any countenance to such a movement would tend to compromise me and lend color to the misrepresentations that apparently are being made in other States...
Amadeo Peter Giannini, a Sicilian peasant by ancestry, acts the Roman patrician by nature. He believes himself the guardian as well as the leader of his clients. Because he knows that the ever-expanding activities of his bank and investment corporation tend to stir up speculation in their securities, he warns the unwary...
...business men will favor Smith in the Democratic party and Dawes in the Republican. The Republicans, although heartily approving the efficiency of the Hoove administration, fear that if Hoover is elected there will come a severe bureaucracy, which will tend to shutting out the business men. The attitude is God help Hoover's successor...