Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public-spirited Pennsylvanians and firm constituents of Senator David A. Reed, we would feel highly grateful if you would present a brief biography of him and a resumé of his legislative program. J. C. LENIE A. V. SIEGEL A. H. FULTON FRANCIS P. BUTLER ROSCOE E. BETTS...
...Brief, pithy, non-controversial was the annual report of Attorney-General William DeWitt Mitchell. Like his predecessors, he requested special legislation from Congress which would permit a husband and wife to testify for (and against) each other in criminal cases; a grand jury to sit after the end of the court term; a consolidation to be made of all U. S. legal activities within the Department of Justice. For himself he asked little-removal by Congress of the present restriction which prohibits the Department from employing as a special assistant any lawyer who in his private practice is prosecuting...
...White House in the Coolidge Administration, he held that delicate post until its duties were transferred to a division of protocol in the state department. Attaché Moffat's most important previous diplomatic work was with the U. S. Legation in Warsaw during Soviet Russia's brief attempt to conquer Poland in 1920-days that brought him in touch with Herbert Hoover and Cardinal Achille Ratti, now Pope Pius XI. In a dingy Geneva office, proudly titled the Treaty Registration Room of the League of Nations Secretariat, he carefully signed three state papers, then retired to Berne...
...Manhattan's Municipal Building one Mr. Burgher presented himself to be married to one Miss Eaton. When they heard the clerk call "Burke and Egan," the couple mistakenly stepped forward, went through the brief legal ceremony. Later Mr. Burke and Miss Egan arrived and the mistake was realized. By that time Bridegroom Burgher and Bride Eaton, unmarried, were somewhere on their honeymoon...
...desperately low, but let that pass. My real purpose was to find out what the members of the course would say about the July. Monarchy if they had only fifteen minutes to say it. I believe and I still maintain that it is quite possible to give a brief characterization of the regime of Louis Philippe in the time allotted, provided the student knows enough about it to be able to distinguish what is important from what is unimportant. The misapprehension of your contributor seems to me like evidence that there is still a pronounced tendency on the part...