Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Daily, published in Washington, is perhaps the only newspaper in the country which literally prints all news of the Government, and a great deal which no other newspaper would consider news. It is a sort of Congressional Record for the entire Federal machinery, colorless, dispassionate. Last week President Coolidge congratulated David Lawrence, able Washington correspondent and president of the United States Daily, on his newspaper's comprehensive and diagrammatic survey of this machinery; said...
...victory. Marshal Joseph Jacques Joffre, who had long realized the special capabilities of Ferdinand Foch, took this opportunity to send him as "Deputy Commander-in-Chief" to put himself in the closest touch with the British and Belgian commanders. His success in conciliating all with whom he had to deal led eventually to his appointment as Generalissimo and caused Mr. Lloyd George to say of him: "He could not have done more for us had he been one of our own generals...
...know, I never commanded in the way people imagine. What I did was to bring those about me to accept my opinions, which is quite a different thing. . . . To command is nothing. . . . What is necessary always is to get a good understanding with those with whom one has to deal, to understand them and get them to understand you. That is the whole secret, not only of successful command but of living...
Such a conference, with all its high ideals about bigger, better and more continuous production assumes a rather ridiculous position in the order or things. A great deal of energy working without any brains always stands a fair chance of accomplishing very little and it is in this respect that the Amsterdam gathering is more closely related than at first appears to so many other groups which differ only in the end to be obtained. Reform, limited by sanity and a sense of humor is an essential in human relations but the incessant dinning and nagging about every little thing...
...disquieting to see so clearly that historians and biographers are more and more becoming cultural book-keepers. When one contemplates a great man now, there is little thought of whether or not he swore, heartily and fell in love: one must deal with the questions: "What did he do for us? If he had not lived and behaved so, wherein would our life be different?" And such profit and loss statements have their absorbing interest, even if their appearance may be a sign that humanity sees the sheriff approaching to seal up the door...