Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work. With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...unpropitious soil of the Yard. Dancing on the green was a favorite pastime, and the confetti battle is an indirect by-product of the fighting about the historic tree. Furthermore, the Class of 1838 was the first to invite mothers, sisters, and sweethearts to the celebration, the affair up to that date being hardly favorable for feminine attendance because of liberal libations of iced ruin punch...
Only Germans took the affair to heart. Cabby Hartmann was royally banqueted at the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin the Tagliche-Rundschau, organ of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Gustav Streseman, famed German Foreign Minister, declared: "The common people of France no longer feel that animosity toward Germans so long and artificially promoted by [French] politicians and the press." Observers who know the tenacious French mentality in regions which have been devastated by tramping Teutons were unimpressed. But enough postcards have been sold (50,000) and enough more will be sold to enable Cabby Hartmann to retire...
Soon Rapscallion Alvarez was specifically charged with furthering the smugglery of $250,000 worth of silk into Mexico. In rebuttal he declared under oath to a high police official: "I deny any knowledge of this affair. I have been made the dupe of others...
...political fortunes, than because they think their readers or listeners are weary of grim fancy tales about barbaric savageries, editors and pulpit-holders keep quiet about religious persecution of Mexico. Abroad, where Mexican absurdities have the attraction of the exotic, newssheets have given the Church v. State affair more advertising. The London Daily Express recently delegated a correspondent to investigate the situation and subsequently published an editorial saying...