Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blaine: You think Pennsylvania would be better off if it is seceded from the Union...
...grave situation that has arisen by delays in tariff legislation. . . . Some of the Senators considered progress hopeless as it appeared to them that the coalition intended to delay or defeat legislation. . . . "The President said . . . that campaign promises should be carried out . . . that he could not believe and therefore would not admit that the U. S. Senate was unable to legislate...
From the battlefield departed Republican Chief of Staff Watson of Indiana, worn to a frazzle by the tariff fray. His physician had ordered a three-week "rest" in Florida. Gossipers spoke of the failure of his leadership, predicted that Brigadier Charles McNary of Oregon would soon be advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules...
Said Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams: "The Superintendent of the Naval Academy assumed that the difference of opinion was an honest one . . . felt that both would have to yield to some extent. The superintendent of the Military Academy refused to compromise...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...