Word: discussions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later date I shall discuss it (the platform) fully, but in the meantime I may well say that under the principles the victory of the party will assure national defense, maintain economy in the administration of government, protect American workmen, farmers and businessmen alike from competition arising out of lower standards of living abroad, foster individual initiative, insure stability of business and employment, promote our foreign commerce and develop our national resources...
Gentlemen with important seats on the Hoover bandwagon flocked towards Washington to discuss ways and means of bandwagon locomotion this summer and autumn...
Before the balloting began, rumors raced from as far away as Cherbourg, France. There, something caused General John Joseph Pershing to race dramatically by motor to catch the S. S. Leviathan. Landing in New York, he refused curtly to discuss politics, seemed annoyed when Mayor Harry Mackay of Philadelphia told newsmen that when he lunched with him in Paris the day before the Leviathan sailed, the general had made no plans for returning to the U. S. The speed, the name, the talk that a Republican was needed to attract the Veterans' vote, combined to make some people suspect...
Drawn on by this melodious invitation, a multitude of musical merchants gathered last week in Manhattan, at the comfortable Commodore. They wished to discuss business, the business of marketing musical instruments, from morning to noon and to amuse themselves throughout the rest of the day. Some of their frivolities were to be of a conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School...
...delegates, but by cheers or booes from other delegations. The delegates whose votes have shifted will sit quietly, having done nothing but what they were told to do by their Boss. Seen off the floor, however, convention delegates look just like so many everyday citizens assembled to compare calmly, discuss intelligently and express independently their individual opinions as to who should be President of the U. S. Next week, Kansas Citizens may expect to see George Eastman, the grey, lean, bespectacled Kodak man, moving about the town. He is a delegate-at-large from New York. Leading the New York...