Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Summer White House made it plain that the West appointment was in no way meant to presume upon or embarrass the Cabinetmaking of a hypothetical President Hoover...
...Marines were to chaperone into effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy...
...embarrass as far as possible every man in public life who voted or worked for the World Court...
Meanwhile Deputy Andre Tardieu, a somewhat unattached champion of the Right, set out to hamstring whatever negotiations might be going on between M. Caillaux and foreign bankers, among whom there was even mentioned Dr. Schacht of the German Reichsbank In order to embarrass Caillaux, Deputy Tardieu relentlessly interpolated Premier Briand before the Chamber, demanding assurances that the Finance Ministry was not negotiating secretly in such a way as to tie the Chamber's hands before the Cabinet's fiscal program was even submitted for debate...
Representative La Guardia, New York's popular Italian member, spent the week trying to embarrass Mr. Andrews by "making beer with a kick" out of bottled goods purchased at the corner drug stores. The ingredients used were near-beer and a 3.76% malt tonic which Mr. Andrews had passed on last month as a legal manufacture (TIME...