Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marshal Joffre said of Kitchener that he understood the French because of his love for them. I too love France, love all her splendors, her attractions, her gayeties. And I love her even more in her hours of anguish and sorrow, when I must render her homage for her fortitude and for her resolution. But also I love her possibly as much for her faults as for her virtues...
...Live. It is doubtful that more than one-half of President Coolidge's swarthy audience at Pine Ridge understood all that he said. Perhaps there were a few who bridled momentarily at the simple words: ". . . Many Indians are still in a primitive state." The President noted that a great portion of Indians, "mostly the older ones, still cling to the old ways, stoically refusing to go further along the modern road. They wish to live and die according to the old traditional ways of the Indians, and they should be permitted...
...choice" of not running for re-election is respected by the country. And a habit-ridden correspondent of the New York Times wrote the following, which promptly appeared on the front page of that authoritative daily: "Many offers have come to him [Mr. Coolidge] to write, and it is understood that some of the trustees of Amherst College, of which Frank W. Stearns [Mr. Coolidge's close friend] is one, may offer him the presidency of that institution...
...While Senators and Representatives wrangled about tax reduction (see below) President Coolidge has arrived at his own conclusions on the question. No "Mellon plan" is expected to be presented to Congress this year, nor is there to be any form of out-and-out Administration tax program. It is understood, however, that the President has "recommendations" to make, chiefly that the tax reduction should centre upon cuts in corporation taxes. The President does not contemplate reduction in the taxes paid by earners of small incomes, but believed that automobile taxes should be lowered, possibly from 3½% to 2%. He also...
Although this disagreement was of a technical kind, the points on which deadlock had been reached were understood by all (TIME, July 18) and so there remained last week only three possible courses to pursue: 1) dissolution of conference; 2) postponement; 3) a yielding by one side or the other to permit agreement...