Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"I was at the White House ceremony this early afternoon and the luncheon. The ceremony was particularly impressive. ... I look upon it as a great historical event. I was delighted to see Mr. Hoover again?I am referring now to the President. . . .* I was especially glad to see Mr. Kellogg...
"I sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be...
At his first official conference, Secretary Hyde said: "Don't try to make me a dirt farmer because I am not. I'm a lawyer. It's supposed to be good politics to claim to be a farmer but farmers don't want to be fooled that way."
2) So fractious a subject was sugar that the Committee agreed to give additional public hearings on the Smoot plan for a sliding tariff scale on this commodity (TIME, July 15). Said the Senator: "What the American sugar producers want is the House rate [3¢ per lb.] but I am...
Last week a seam-faced little man on crutches moved up and down hot Manhattan streets. Every so often he stopped a pedestrian, asked questions. "Do you think it right for girls to appear bare-legged in the office?" "Do you favor Mayor Walker for re-election?" Answers received, a...