Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your resignation as Secretary of Commerce tendered some time ago is hereby accepted. I wish to express to you my appreciation of the character of the service you have rendered in that office. It has been of great benefit to the commercial life of the nation and has given a new impetus to our entire business structure...
...went on to say what a rich national asset the Colorado River is and how much bigger and better Los Angeles would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
Despite such positive disclaimers of mystery, the London press persisted. The Daily Express found its reporters "rebuffed in all attempts" to get information. But lynx-eyed newsgatherers discovered "a complete secretariat" and a number of other (unnamed) oil officials concealed in the castle, or, more mysteriously, "in its neighborhood...
...this, my dear Governor, I express to you the sincere hope that during our debate you will quote your own 'record,' etc., more accurately than you quote Scripture. The quotation you give, 'thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor' was not a part of 'the teachings of Christ,'* as you say, but one of the Ten Commandments revealed to us through Moses. It is in the Old Testament-recorded in Exodus, twentieth chapter, sixteenth verse. Jesus's teaching was yet higher. He taught that love is the fulfillment...
...your June 25 issue an article on page 20 deals with the wreck of an express train near Nuremberg, Germany, in connection with the application of the German National Railway Company for an increase of rates. . . . Your article implies that the Nuremberg accident was due to poor condition of the railroad caused by lack of money and that a rate increase would remedy this situation. . . . I have before me the 1927 annual report of the German National Railway Company and find that the number of accidents in 1927, measured by traffic volume, was lower than under the excellent...