Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception.
The foreshadowed warmth of the greeting is naturally pleasing to the President-elect. But there is, happily no indication that he has been swept from his moorings to modesty. The habits of a lifetime tether him to this valuable quality, and it is clear he would prefer to slip in...
The session of Congress which starts to-day, coming as it does between two widely differentiated administrations, is of significance to every voter throughout the country. Though the session in itself will be a short one, there will be great opportunities for good work, and just as great opportunities for...
There is a possibility that, taking advantage of the Democratic majority in the House and the powerful minority in the Senate, Congress will force through bills which may hamper the coming administration in carrying out to the fullest extent its program. Such a course, after the unmistakable voice of the...
Another, and, it would seem, a better policy would be to proceed along more general lines. Bills such as those concerning the establishment of an aeronautical department, and the relief of the agricultural depression by legislation can have no effect upon either party, and would certainly be of benefit to...