Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This constant charge of injustice and usury on the part of the United States is simply not only unfounded in fact, but dishonest in purpose." In France, newspaper editorials shrieked, "Francophobe! Sadist!"* But even Frenchmen expressed preference for open antagonism to concealed indifference. At home, people watched Mr. Kellogg wait, recalled that there is nothing in the Constitution to keep Mr. Borah from occupying both his own Senatorial chair and the Secretary of State's seat. If the President would select for his Cabinet the chairman of the leading Congressional Committees, "responsible government," in the sense in which...
...adjournment and seemed resolved to wrangle to a finish two matters which were not of the Administration's making nor very much to the Administration's liking. They were matters which the Administration had not had in mind when, last month, it postponed the adjournment to wait for France to ratify the latest debt agreement. The delay appeared to constitute the Administration's first serious political error, for it also made possible the dragging to Washington of the embarrassing Pennsylvania primary investigations...
...Commission concluded two more debt-funding agreements. One was the $4,025,000,000 French debt proposed to be funded for about 50% of its present value, the other the small debt of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The House approved both these measures and they now wait in the Senate. No further action will be taken on the French Debt until and unless it is ratified by France...
...Yesterday a freakish stunt, today it is a mode of travel.... One should equally avoid the appearance of mendicancy and that of prosperity . . . don't wait to be invited to ride . . . walk on the wrong side of the road. ... It is bad ethics for a man to ask women motorists for a ride. However, it is permissible to look at them in an interrogative way, and if the ride is then proffered, it would be impolite to refuse...
...Bacon Fall left the shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges wait until the reduced scale had been put into effect, then changed his mind...