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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four words of two letters. In these the President kept the cryptographer's well-known frequency rule almost perfectly: "of, to, in, it, is, be, he," etc. At "he," Mr. Coolidge, speaking chiefly of impersonal matters, had broken the rule, using only two "he's." "We" was far up the list, next to "be." He had said "me" but once...
...This brought the income from the canal to more than $16,000,000, as compared to $10,000,000 in the previous year and to $3,000.000 in the year before that. Adding in the sums earned by the Panama Railroad, the machine shops, commissaries, coaling plants, etc., the net revenue amounted to $18,254,459-handsome enough. U. S. ships were by far the greatest users of the Canal, contributing 61.7% of the total. Great Britain stood next with 22.4%; and 19 other nations, including the Free City of Danzig, Yugo-Slavia, Finland, trailed with none of them...
...much advertised attack upon the King of Spain (TIME, Oct. 20). In a pamphlet entitled Alfonso Unmasked, Ibanez accused the King of remaining "a precocious child, without becoming a man," of being lightheaded, a German spy during the War, the sole cause of the Moroccan disaster of 1921, etc...
Came the publishers of Liberty, for example, "playing up" articles about Woodrow Wilson by Editor William Allen White of Kansas. Said the newspaper blurb: "That Whispering About Woodrow Wilson's Love Affairs," etc. Juxtaposed with the eminently responsible name of the editor of the Emporia Gazette, this blurb was irresistible. Yet in Editor White's article, "that whispering about Woodrow Wilson's love affairs" constituted an entirely secondary element of interest, and reference to it occupied scarcely an eighth of the article. Friends of Editor White were irritated to think that the publishers of Liberty had thus misrepresented him, since...
...farewell address in Manhattan to the Italy-America Society, Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., who is returning home next month, stoutly defended the Fascist regime in Italy. He spoke of what had been accomplished: balanced budgets, reduction of internal indebtedness, prosperous industries, etc., and said that the Government was arranging to redeem $15,000,000 worth of bonds falling due in the U. S. in 1925. Said he: "We-that is, Mussolini and his faithful followers, including the most patriotic elements of Italy-are going to see that this work is carried out to a finish...