Word: wanted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speaking for British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, that sane and steady Scot. The full staggering power of Chancellor Snowden's punches was not felt until Mr. MacDonald officially declared: "In view of the statements so widely read on the Continent that Mr. Snowden is bluffing, I want to make it perfectly clear that the claims he is making that Great Britain has now reached the limit of bearing unfair burdens have all of our support...
...petitioned New Haven's Board of Aldermen to pass an ordinance obliging all girls of New Haven over twelve years of age to wear stockings in public or court arrest. Said Worker Young: "A splendid body of students come here each year. . . . I love young people and want to protect them against themselves...
Continuing, he said things calculated to amaze both the pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
...fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am putting forward the sliding scale so that if there should be a runaway in the sugar market, it cannot be laid to the tariff." Farm Lobbyist Chester H. Gray called the Smoot plan a "risky experiment," protested its use on agricultural products, advised it be first "tried out on some profitable industrial...
...mahogany at the White House really wish to get anywhere in their conference for law enforcement, let them remember what the beloved and immortal Sam Jones said: 'If you want to reform the world, begin on yourself and then you will have one rascal...