Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inevitable split between the conservative and radical members of the Senate had come, and that it was time for me to obey my profoundest instincts and convictions and to part company for a time with other Democratic Senators. ... As far as I am concerned, it might as well be understood now as later that no boat has room enough to hold Senator La Follette and his adherents...
...Conradi, his assassin, the Soviet Government issued instructions to the Russian police: "to revise carefully the lists of Swiss citizens now residing in Soviet territory and to make a separate list of those born in the Swiss Canton of Vaud [where the murder took place]." It was understood that the Government intends to deport all the Swiss from the Canton of Vaud who are living in Russia and all those who have recently entered the country, as a protest against the acquittal of Conradi...
...Premier had asked the President to dissolve the Parliament, stating that the hostile majority made it impossible to govern. It was understood, however, that he declined to sanction the proposal. So the Cabinet resigned...
...Congress, an executive secretariat of the "American League of Young Americans" and an unpublished novel, The New Regime. As a novelist he prefers the nom de plume of Fred C. Putnam, for fear that the publication of his novel would! injure his chances for the Vice Presidency. It is understood that the plot of his novel is as follows...
...comparatively relegated to the background and treated in terms not so clear. For instance the World Court question is mixed up with the Hague Court, which has not had success enough to recommend it very highly; and it is recommended with "the proposed reservations," reservations never very clearly understood. As for the League of Nations, all the high-sounding phrases at the close regarding our responsibility in giving the world a more practical use of "our moral power" do not dispel the questionableness of once more calling the League "a dead issue." Perhaps at present it is a dead issue...