Word: misunderstoodness
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...couldn't be wetter, yet I enforce the law in Cambridge. The same is true of Smith. He uses all the means at his disposal to enforce a law which should be enforced solely by the Federal authorities. Smith is greatly misunderstood in the South, because of the common belief of his attitude toward wetness. But his record as governor of New York should counteract this. It is an enviable record, in a state which was carried by Harding by 1,000,000 people and by Coolidge by half a million, that Smith, a Democrat should have been four times...
Heflin: "Now, Mr. President the Senator from Arkansas misunderstood entirely what I said...
...McBride represents the Wheeler tradition of alert, energetic lobbying, vote-swaying, political-threatening. Mr. Cherrington represents a faction of the League which conceives that Wheelerism has been misunderstood in the U. S.; that the League's moneyed lobbying has made the League almost unpopular; that the League's wisest course now is to spend its millions after the fashion of manufacturers of tomato soup and cigarets, on national advertising and an "educational" campaign...
...admits that "the troubles are not deep seated". Helpful advice, however, for those who think they need it is never to be scorned, even by a man who has no "troubles" whatsoever. The service of the Department of Mental Hygiene is of that nature which not infrequently receives more misunderstood censure than deserved praise. At Harvard it is an indubitable asset...
...Edward L. Doheny in the Fall-Doheny phases of the oil lease litigation, heard that Representative Fish had publicly listed jury-tampering among Dr. Doheny's doings. Since Mr. Doheny has yet another trial to stand, Lawyer Hogan remonstrated with Representative Fish lest his client be further misunderstood by the public. Representative Fish denied having cast upon Mr. Doheny any aspersions in addition to those cast by the U. S. Supreme Court, which mentioned "fraud" and "collusion." Then Representative Fish took occasion to address Lawyer Hogan as follows on the Fall-Sinclair-Doheny business in general: " . . . the country...