Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most important to have people understand that the use of bituminous coal is not advocated merely because an emergency exists. I see nothing but high prices in the future in the anthracite fields. The use of bituminous is important not only for the moment but for the future. This the public should understand and appreciate. When this realization reaches the anthracite district, the operators and miners will get together. If not, they will commit industrial suicide?a thing which they have almost done...
...owners of the burden of land, and factory owners of the burden of conducting factories." In the middle of these proceedings the organist got the wrong cue and burst into The International. After Comrade Tomski had finished a motion was proposed to substitute orations in Esperanto, which nobody could understand for any further speeches in Russian...
...There certainly was no express understanding [ i. e. arrived at between the President and Mr. Haney] concerning the continuance in office or the removal of President Palmer. . . I myself had definitely advised you that I could not accept a reappointment if any conditions whatever attached to that reappointment. . . I did not intend to lead you, directly or indirectly, Mr. President, to understand that I would be a party to continuing Mr. Palmer as President of the Fleet Corporation...
...Labor Party, was published in London last week. Mr. Thorne treats his reminiscences like fine liqueurs, slowly sipped. He remembers how he, frowsily dressed astounded a taxi-driver by directing: "Buckingham Palace"; how he said to Lord Stamfordham (the King's Secretary) : "I have been led to understand one has to do a lot of bowing and scraping;" how Lord Stamfordham told him he was mistaken; how his preconception of the King was indeed mistaken...
...replied: 'No widespread trouble will take place, but there are bound to be labor troubles from time to time for many years to come. But please understand that practically all the Parliamentary Labor party, including myself, are in favor of obtaining the social economic and industrial reforms by constitutional methods...