Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mason's Feathers Sirs: May I call your attention to the fact that the photoplay The Four Feathers was taken from the book by that name by A. E. W. Mason, and not written up to supplement the animal pictures which feature it, as is indicated in your review in this week's TIME. I mention this because I have always thought Mr. Mason deserved to be better known than he is, and while his plot may seem "silly" when put into the cinema, his book, although written for a less sophisticated decade, would perhaps find more favor...
...next five years, plus 35 millions per year for new construction-a net loss of 600 millions in five years which U. S. taxpayers would have to meet. The annual cost of handling the U. S. mails is about 800 millions. Postal deficits are due to the fact that not all postal rates cover equitably the cost of the service rendered. The Post Office makes money on handling first-class letter mail, on postal savings, on its registry service. It loses on second-class matter (newspapers, magazines), fourth-class (parcels post), rural free delivery, air and marine mail. The only...
...office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made on the Customs Bureau's chief problem-smuggled liquor from Canada to Detroit where the Treasury now has stationed some 400 U. S. agents, mostly Customs officers. That the flow was being dammed was evident from the fact that in June, 112,878 gallons of liquor officially cleared from Windsor, Ont. for the U. S., as against 470,055 gallons for the same month last year. Commissioner Eble determined to reduce the flow even more. No newcomer to the Treasury, Commissioner Eble, whose home is Salt Lake City...
Senator Harrison: "Senator Smoot's inconsistencies ... a sham and a pretense. ... As a matter of fact . . . Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Norway, Greece, Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, Persia, Uruguay, Mexico and Honduras protested as governments. . . . Those protests are general and significant in character...
...rain-drenched Highland town of Inverness, the Town Councilors last week offered Freedom-of-the-Burgh to Stanley Baldwin and Ramsay MacDonald "in recognition of the distinction they have brought to Clan Donald." Not widely known is the fact that Britain's two foremost statesmen are distant cousins. Stanley Baldwin's mother was a MacDonald, his ancestors rebellious Jacobites...