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Since you hold unflattering opinions of the Bureau, I should like you to consider one splendid compliment which the Bureau received from a Yale graduate. In June, 1920 I was offered the job of tutoring this Yale man's son, the offer coming through the Bureau. I accepted, and later, when the opportunity presented itself, I asked my employer why he was willing to entrust his son to the charge of a Harvard man. His answer was that he was willing to sacrifice his Yale feelings to the confidence he had in the Harvard Employment Bureau. ARTHUR C. WATSON...
...told you I am his second string. I don't exactly know what that means, whether it is a compliment or not. If it means that I am not as good as he is, I object. If, as somebody has just told me, the second string starts in to function only when the first was broken down, I don't quite see where I come in. He did not show any signs of breaking down. In fact, I thought he was too long...
...hoped that the proposed 'change in Philippine control would not be taken as a criticism of General Wood, to whose administration the President paid high compliment. The General arrived in Manhattan last week, stopped at the Waldorf-Astoria, continued to announce that he would be back in Manila by September. He said that President Coolidge was "a great President," that the Filipinos were the "happiest people on earth" and that though most of them undoubtedly wanted independence, they really did not understand what independence would mean...
...Times European staff. Thus, if Mr. Schuyler wrote correctly, when Mr. James of the New York Times referred to Colonel Lindbergh's dictating his story to the stenographer, it was the story of Mr. MacDonald of the New York Times that the stenographer was really transcribing. Even the compliment to the beauty of Erin may have been a MacDonald heartthrob rather than a Lindbergh emotion...
...aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel and to express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient manner in which they cared for my plane." Undeterred, Mr. Mitchell next issued a blanket charge of naval incompetence in aviation matters. He maintained that...