Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Al Smith, it was believed, had chosen Franklin D. Roosevelt, his campaign manager, to nominate him?a sort of return compliment, since Governor Smith seconded Mr. Roosevelt's nomination for Vice President in 1920. For a seconder of his nomination, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, sister of Lady Astor, was suggested...
James A. Frear, La Follette Republican from Hudson, Wis., spoke to his associates. "I wish to pay a compliment to the reporters of the various newspapers who do present the facts in the same news column, correctly. It takes an editorial writer, however, to exercise the imagination of a Munchausen, and these gentlemen deliberately lie, because they distort the language as it appears in the newspaper columns, and I shall expect every member of the House to bear me out in the proposition when I quote from this leading editorial...
...these days to call a poet clean is no slight compliment. Mr. Auslander without raising a moment's suspicion of a didactic purpose, never gravitates to the immoral as so many poets do on occasion. He speaks the poetry that is in him, a poetry pure and high...
...faculty has been announced as one of the winners. And the fact that Professor Mellwain has won the award on the basis of a treatise on the American Revolution--a subject which had apparently been exhausted by generations of American historians--is an added tribute to his scholarship. The compliment paid to a great English lecturer, that he made the dry bones of Bishop Stubbs' "Constitutional History" live, might well apply to Professor Mcllwain and the course of American constitutionalism...
...electing its directors for the coming year the Associated Press paid a special compliment to its chief organizer and its first president, Vic tor Fremont Lawson. As a special honor he was reelected to the Directorate by acclamation. Mr. Lawson is publisher of The Chicago Daily News. On Christmas Day, 1875, he, with Melville E. Stone (now retired head of the Associated Press) and two others, set up the News with $5,000 capital. The others soon dropped out. Stone maintained his connection with the News until he took charge of the Associated Press. Lawson and Stone instituted a series...