Word: andrews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction 'Never trust a quoter.' ... I found:-'This reminds me of what Chesterton Keenly remarked. . . . Abraham Lincoln could say today. ... As Woodrow Wilson so wisely put it. ... I like Andrew Jackson's blunt statement that.' ... A careful tally reveals the following extracts: Woodrow Wilson, two; Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, two and G. K. Chesterton. . . . I should have added Patrick Henry. . . . I was minded to remark: 'Why don't you speak for yourself, Franklin...
Often dollar-hostile, the newsorgans of Baron Beaverbrook veered around like weathercocks last week to crow the praises of dollars in general and of newly-arrived Ambassador Andrew William Mellon, dollar Croesus...
Last week Britain fervently welcomed Andrew William Mellon, more as a savior than an Ambassador. All the denials in the world could not dispel the fixed British notion that this shy, fragile old man brought, tucked away in his shiny new diplomatic baggage, a U. S. solution to War Debts & Reparations. Newspapers printed column after column about his vast wealth, his patrician manners, his astuteness in finance and art collecting. A modest advertisement that someone with £250,000 to spend wanted to buy an art collection was ignorantly but persistently ascribed to the new little figure at the Court...
...Mexican War, for the Union Army in the Civil War.' When the steel industry began, Mackintosh-Hemphill invented much of the machinery used, shipped it from Pittsburgh to India. Japan, Australia, Russia. Belgium and other nations. Epoch in the company's venerable history was when Andrew Carnegie came to it and President James Hemphill, irked by Europe's supremacy in steel, offered to build him the greatest plant in the world on the instalment plan. That plant was Homestead Steel Works. James Hemphill almost went blind on it, finished the work in a dark room with bandages over his eyes...
...Spanish Ambassador, escorted Adelardo Fernandez Arias, New York correspondent of Madrid's illustrated daily A. B. C., into the Hoover office for introductions. Other visitors: the Lancaster, Pa. High School Class of 1891 (to shake hands), Matthew Elting Hanna. U. S. Minister to Nicaragua (to say good-by), Andrew William Mellon, Ambassador to Britain (to say good-by), Lawyer James Naumburg Rosenberg of New York (to introduce his son Robert), Counsel James Francis Burke of the G. O. P. National Committee (to talk politics). ¶From the U. S. fish hatchery at Nashua, N. H. 320 adult trout were...