Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple man. tall, with grey hair, a mouth that smiles easily, steady patient eyes, a sincere handclasp for all comers. Secretary Hyde is without pretense. When he is asked a question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
...British schoolboy about Burton-on-Trent and loudly will he answer, "That's where the ale comes from." Ask him what ale and he will cry, "Bass's Ale!" Almost as familiar as the Prince of Wales' three feathers is the pale red triangle of Bass's Pale Ale and Stout, sign manual of the firm of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton who have brewed the potent, acrid, yellowish brew?which Britons drink in preference to beer?ever since Washington wintered at Valley Forge...
...Answer: "Well ... I think I can say that is true...
...Question above was asked by Utah's Democratic Senator King. The Answer was given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering...
...extemporaneously. For 40 minutes he talked of his boyhood in the New York slums, of city improvements he had started and hoped to finish, of necessary increases in the city budget to give the People better living conditions. To the committee's request he concluded: "This is the answer: Who could...