Word: upon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Referring to the No. 6 Man as "Mr. Foghorn Adams," Senator Harrison quoted his remarks on the greatness of President Hoover and replied, with privileged Senatorial rudeness, that the President is "as negative a quantity ... as any we have ever had." Upon Secretary Adams's praise of the Cabinet of which he is a member Senator Harrison commented: "He recommends himself pretty highly, don't you think?" After his Boston speech, and the Harrison reply, Secretary Adams went to Newport, awarded diplomas at the Navy's War College, delivered the graduation speech. It was the shortest...
Said Senator Blease: "The Civil Service is the most damnable, the most iniquitous system ever perpetrated upon a free country. I believe to the victors belong the spoils. ... If North Carolina, Virginia, Texas and Florida want to go Republican, let them have Republican census-takers. ... If that is the company they want to keep and they happen to get up with fleas on 'em, let 'em bite...
...large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases: "The spirit of the Constitution," "The integrity and equity of the House," "an outrage upon the Constitution," "A solemn, sober challenge to the American conscience," "self-government crumbles...
When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
...wholly in accord with my colleagues. Plan No. 21,182 [the Hoyt Plan] is ingenious, but I fear impracticable, in view of the interpretation put upon the 18th Amendment by the Supreme Court of the U. S., which interpretation clearly includes wines and malt liquors in the phrase 'intoxicating liquors.'" Winner Hoyt had anticipated such criticism. Like any reformer-or ironist-he had written in his plan, referring to the Supreme Court, that he was sure that body would not "take it upon itself to nullify the will of the representatives of the People...