Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish I had said it. For cer tainly Mr. Hoover has hatched out a fine brood of trouble for the Democratic can didates...
...they could agree on religious tolerance and Prohibition. "I do wish they'd give us a rest in the discussions about Mrs. Willebrandt," said Mr. Burton. Said Mr. Baker: "When Mrs. Firebrand from Washington gets into a ministers' meeting and flails the energies of the pastors to go into the pulpits . . . I don't wonder that Congressman Burton and others pray to be delivered from...
...States which wish to do so prohibit. ... I don't drink myself at all, and I don't oppose Prohibition on the ground that it limits the liberties of the people. I think that in the interest of the community, and of the man who can not resist the temptation to drink in excess, if he has the opportunity to drink at all, other citizens in the community may be properly asked and compelled to give up drinking, although that drinking may do them no injury. My objections to Prohibition are as I have stated them above...
...said: "The purpose of the Eighteenth Amendment is to protect the American home. ... I wish to see it suc¬ceed...
...basket ball court will probably be left intact for use for Law School league games, and any Seniors who wish to play there. This will mean that the University has three good courts available at all times...