Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With some pride, the New York Public Library last week announced that it had just received as a gift an arrant forgery to add to its notable collection of autographs. The document, purporting to be a brief letter in the handwriting of Benjamin Franklin, was gladly accepted by the library, for, according to Manhattan Autograph Expert Thomas F. Madigan, it was a fine specimen of the handiwork of Robert Spring, one of the most notorious autograph forgers in U. S. history. While hundreds of unwitting collectors have cabinets filled with Robert Spring autographs, wiseacres are willing to pay large sums...
Your account of Ray Noble, TIME, June 10, is a brief but meaty supplement to the Duke Ellington article which appeared in FORTUNE in August 1933. However, I regret your continued criticism of Paul Whiteman...
...lend the African Republic money to pay off its European and other debts. Mr. Firestone planted 55,000 acres of rubber trees, built 100 miles of road (five times as much as Liberia had ever had before), hired thousands of natives at 25? a week, gave Liberia a brief boom. Then with Depression the Liberian Congress seized the revenues set aside to service the Firestone debt. The U. S. protested that this was contrary to the Liberian Constitution. Proclamations were posted that any Liberian Supreme Court Justice who held the Act unconstitutional would be assassinated...
...getting nowhere. No Senator rose to help his filibuster. The Shriners were beginning to go out to dinner. Shortly after 5 o'clock Oklahoma's Senator Thomas made the point of no quorum. While the roll was being called Huey Long slipped out of the Chamber for brief relief. When he came back he asked for an opportunity to retire gracefully: "Mr. President, I am not anxious to proceed too long. If we can get a unanimous-consent agreement to vote by noon tomorrow on the motion I have made I shall have no objection to voting...
...became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founder of the Pan-African congresses, author, in 1919, of a sensational article on racial discrimination in the U. S. Army that led to a brief suspension of The Crisis...