Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asked why he did not report in 1924 that Sinclair had at one time advanced as much as $260,000 toward the G. O. P. deficit, Mr. Hays said, "I was not asked about that...
...hard coal comes out of the earth, a Hudson closed car turned into hard-boiled Railroad Street, closely followed by a Peerless sedan. Crowding the Hudson to the gutter, the Peerless paused to belch a noisy blast of powder and lead slugs from several pump guns. Then it vanished toward the neighboring hamlet of Moosic, where it was abandoned, the occupants slipping away into a dense forest. In the shattered Hudson on Railroad Street lay Alexander Campbell, labor leader, and his friend Peter Reilly, both of them horribly dead...
...tolerate no propaganda. . . . Secondly, we recently ruled against the Edith Cavell picture Dawn because it was too warlike. I am told it cost ?35,000. It's not the war spirit that we want to foster but the spirit of peace. Thirdly, there is our attitude toward religious films. I may say that we would not have passed The King of Kings. The producer, probably surmising as much, did not submit it. The chief objection would have been against the idea of an actor impersonating the Founder of Christianity...
...coming dispute between Italy and Serbia [Jugoslavia], outwardly we have no set policy, sympathy or antipathy toward either one of the disputants, nor to the subject of the dispute-Albania. "We have no allies outside of Russia who definitely have undertaken to come to our defense should the fatherland be invaded. In turn, we shall go to Russia's assistance should that country's territorial integrity be menaced by more than one power...
...running on the issue of farm relief. Donahey and Pomerene are running as Ohioans. Curtis is running on the advice of his friends. Watson is running for the Indiana delegation. Willis is running for practice or for exercise. But to date none of these gentlemen has defined his attitude toward the Presidency in any great detail...