Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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(5) Because for the past two weeks, while ex-President Taft has been issuing daily bulletins to the effect that he is sure that Senator Harding must be in favor of going into the League, Senator Johnson has been issuing daily statements to the effect that Senator Harding is irrevocably...
(6) Because Senator Harding has stated that he intends, if elected, to make a separate peace with Germany, a "peace without victory" in the full sense of that unfortunate phrase.
(8) Because, whether intentionally or not, Senator Harding has, through the two statements last quoted, attracted the solid German vote of the country.
(4) Because that small group a bitter reactionaries, who for reasons of national selfishness, shrinking provincialism, and hatred of President Wilson, defeated the Peace Treaty and League Covenant in the Senate, accomplished the nomination of Senator Harding, because, if elected, he would do their bidding.
(9) Because Senator Harding, while admitting that he has "no single constructive purpose," intends to formulate some hazy substitute League that will have the merit of Republican, not Democratic, authorship. This is tantamount to admitting that he would ask the 43 members of the present League, which has already prevented...