Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That, he thought, "would shrink the whole naval controversy to its true proportions" and "would reduce the probability of a collision between the navies of the U.S. and Great Britain to the vanishing point...
Much reading of the Constitution has made Mr. Borah a solemn man whom the ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...
Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...
...course all this is just Irish tosh, but the Queen-Empress and her advisers have apparently thought it unwise to overrule President Cosgrave openly. They were faced with a nasty dilemma when occasion arose for the Crown Council to accredit Mr. Michael MacWhite as Irish Free State Minister to the U.S. (TIME, March 25). But they found a weasel way out. Since the Irish were determined to honor none but Royal signatures, the necessary papers were signed by the Duke of York, Queen Mary and Edward of Wales only...
...predicted that should George V remain invalid, an Imperial Conference will have to be called to settle the Crown Council Question beyond possibility of Irish cavil. Early in the week, several of the 22 subjects designated Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George at Marshal Foch's funeral...