Word: considerately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood aftermath last week centered about two topics-Herbert C. Hoover and special session. Secretary Hoover appeared generally regarded, in the flooded district, as the "hero" of the flood; in Chicago, however, he was not so highly considered. Meanwhile the Special Session (to consider flood problems) continued to find many...
...apparently did not,appeal to the President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known, still opposed to a special session, it did not seem likely that Congress would meet before its regular time, or long enough before to make much difference...
M. Stalin, who must battle constantly with such "pure" revolutinaries as these, is naturally in a very awkward position with respect to the world at large. Enough to say that the principal U. S. financial houses with large interests in Russia consider him far more "conservative" than he dares to...
Reputedly Senator Bingham, six feet tall and harsh of voice, told the small and slim but ruthless Chang Tso-lin that if he ordered the execution of Mme. Borodin public opinion in the U. S. would consider the War Lord a mere barbarian.
The American Society of Civil Engineers meets four times yearly. Last week it convened at Denver. A local news scrivener described the Society's board of directors: "Coats off, collars loosened, the 20 men plunged into deliberation and piles of papers. For three hours they worked as only engineers...