Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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"I feel a partiality toward the grantor of my later degree," said Mr. Gillett in his opening words after speaking of his alma mater, Amherst, and his Law School studies here, "that makes me favor it in its sports and games, which I still find as much interest in as...
After speaking of the increasing number of college men in the House, especially from Harvard and Amherst in representing Massachusetts, Congressman Gillett urged that every young man select a party and be guided in selection by the finding of the same ideals and purposes in the men of the party...
"If perpetual peace and disarmament were to follow the election of the Democratic nominee for President," he continued in talking of the "most discussed and interesting problem of the campaign-the League," "we all should help his election. But we must have more proof that it would than his say...
He then spoke of the "autocracy" of the present administration, pointing out that it was consistent with President Wilson's ideas expressed in a book of his written during student days 35 years ago; of the inefficient and extravagant government given the country by the Democratic administration during and since...
Speaker Gillett devoted the rest of his speech to the real significance of Article 10. He brought out the unstable and unnaturally aggravated conditions in Europe we would be under a compelling moral obligation to deal with, even to declaring war, which Congress could not refuse to do without repudiating...