Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visiting and nurturing foreign chapters of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which he has been director-general for 22 years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now only some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan? "I am not an expert on financial situations," he said. What...
Such, today, is the man whose name has become the synonym for Prohibition by virtue of his having introduced in Congress the statute to enforce the 18th Amendment.* Last week he had something to say after Nominee Smith had suggested changing the statute. Said Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
...Seeming to Say Something Without Doing So must be practiced, no matter how it bores or shames you. Candid candidates lose. It is folly to discuss live issues unless forced...
With the wet views of Alfred Emanuel Smith, Premier L. A. Taschereau, of Quebec, is in accord. Said the Quebec Premier last week: "I cannot make any actual comment upon any of the planks of the platform advocated by either Mr. Smith or Mr. Hoover. However, I might say that I am not altogether insensible to the reference made by the Democratic candidate to the liquor question. When some of my friends in the opposition in the Legislature offered some bitter criticism at the time the Government introduced the Quebec Liquor Act, I replied that before very long our liquor...
...situation as he realizes it. Soon he will take his pictures to the U. S. for display first in his museum, then in jails and school houses for the benefit of the crass as well as of the well-bred. Many to know what he is trying to say with paintings will need the aid of the scientific notes that he made incidentally on his trip...