Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Moses went into New Jersey and had a shot at Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "You people," he said at Bayonne, "are in the centre of a community dominated by an understudy of Tammany Hall. I cannot understand how you can submit to the domination of a machine that is corrupt, rapacious, unrelenting and unforgiving...
...Curtis: "Yes, and on the lower brackets. ... I guess you are too dumb to understand...
...While I am in this cautioning mood let me speak about the bootlegging and liquor-drinking of which I understand there is too much around the reservation. I particularly advise you against the use of liquor, known in the early days as firewater. I know you will obey all laws...
Thus, the Hearst "whispering campaign"−whispers which shout, cartoons which anybody can understand−implying that Mr. Smith's Democratic Party is the party of notorious women, jugs of liquor, money for profane pearls, with Mr. Raskob as chief sugar-daddy...
...think I understand more clearly than you imagine what you mean. Not long ago I visited an exhibition of modern pictures at Pittsburgh. Almost every European nation was represented. As I looked at those pictures I felt I could see through them into the minds of the nations which had created them...