Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon, this grand Secretary that you hear so much about today, this man who will never perish from the thoughts of the American people when we are gone and forgotten, this man sits on that side of the table as Secretary of the Treasury and if reports are correct that he owns the Aluminum Co., Mr. Mellon, the citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa., sits on this side and determines how much he owes the government...
...know about the mathematics of apportionment in order to protect himself and his state against any injustice in the matter of representation. There is a short-cut process of computation used by the experts in the Bureau of the Census to turn out, in two or three hours, a correct apportionment of any number of representatives on the basis of any given populations of the states; but this is a matter of technical detail. The result is the important thing, and the result can always be checked up, in case of any dispute, by a direct and straight-forward application...
Miss Draper's grandfather was Charles A. Dana, famed editor and publisher of the New York Sun. Her parents, her father especially, was too correct and well-settled in social Philadelphia to approve of her eccentric plans to go upon the stage. But she somehow progressed from entertaining her friends with mimicries to playing to paying houses. She has never played to an audience that disliked her; and she has played in the six or seven languages which she speaks. She detests publicity and does not, in her quiet demeanor, display traces of the exhibitionism which inspires all acting...
...subscriber I am writing to correct a statement made in your issue of Dec. 10, page 59, wherein you state that the Prairie...
...precisely "famed" is Rector Ray. Nor would it be correct to refer to him as "one Dr. Randolph Ray." He is well-known, popular, esteemed, distinguished, conspicuous, important, well thought of, much talked of. He is a notable somebody...