Word: wouldn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Court in Illinois refused to grant her citizenship. In the U. S. Supreme Court, whither the case was carried, Mme. Schwimmer writhed with resentment as Acting U. S. Solicitor-General Alfred A. Wheat told the court that, if "an ordinary American housewife" held her beliefs it wouldn't matter, but that in the "brilliant Schwimmer mind'' those same beliefs were dangerous...
...that the Debenture Plan affected revenue, and therefore invaded the House's constitutional prerogative to initiate this kind of legislation. But the Farm issue temporarily overtopped the Constitution. Chairman Snell of the House Rules Committee put it thus: "If we should start some Constitutional argument here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso: "In the opinion of the House there...
...Smith: "You bet it did. If some of the others took them as well, maybe it wouldn't have been possible for me to be here tonight...
Nevertheless, Harvard is a pretty live under-dog. It isn't barking very loud, but there wouldn't be great surprise if Harvard squeaked through with a fraction more than the necessary 67 1-2 points...
...next afternoon. When she alighted she had established a new solo endurance flight record for women: 26 hrs., 21 min. 32 sec.-4½ hrs. more than the previous record (Louise McPhetridge Thaden of California). Miss Smith told about being airsick: "I ate an orange but it wouldn't stay put. . . . Then I tried a tomato but it had a round trip ticket, too. I drank some water and it was the same story over again so I finally got tired and gave...