Word: constitutionalists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Imposing silence on his own colleagues, especially upon Idaho's sonorous constitutionalist, Wild Bill Borah, was Leader McNary's hardest job. Every morning he summoned them all to the green-baize table of his caucus room and made them vow tongue-holding again. "Let the boys across the aisle do the talking," he would say, smiling dreamily as he shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler...
Chattered Howland Spencer: "I like Divine's ideas. He is a great constitutionalist. ... I thought of the steamboats that will bring thousands of colored people from New York to swim in the Hudson here and have picnics on the hills, and it sort of amused me. . . . Whether we meant it or not, this really will annoy Franklin a great deal...
California Constitutionalist...
During the campaign Lord Strickland's Constitutionalist Party charged that the Nationalist Party which proceeded to vanquish them is "linked with Italy, with the Church and with the Fascist declaration that Malta is a part of Italy unredeemed." Nationalists retorted that if Baron Strickland were really a "faithful son of Holy Church" as he claimed in his letter to be, then the British Premier ought to be working zealously for return of Malta to the temporal as well as spiritual fold of Rome...
...Government found it necessary to dissolve Parliament and to rule Malta for the past two years by royal decree. To hold an election was something Baron Strickland dared not do unless the Bishops would withdraw their pastoral letter of May 1930 warning Catholic voters not to vote for his Constitutionalist Party. The Bishops, having received the Premier's apology, withdrew their letter. Breathing easier, Baron Strickland announced an election which sent Maltese to the polls last week for the first time since...