Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegation of Negroes called at the White House and addressed Mr. Coolidge thus through th?ir spokesman: "In behalf of the 15,000 colored Congregationalists of the United States, we greet you as a fellow-Congregationalist in whom we have full confidence. . . . "Particularly do we want to thank you for that great word you spoke at Omaha, the bravest word spoken by any Executive for three-score years. It sounds like Lincoln...
That is one of the chief charges. Dan Moody, a young fellow of only 32 (tall, blond, good-natured), was elected Attorney General of Texas at the same time that Mrs. Ferguson was elected Governess. He had a majority of 400,000 (whereas Mrs. Ferguson's majority was only 90,000). He has attacked the record of the Highway Commission, claiming that it has spent 20 millions in a few months, and that it let contracts to high-bidders instead of low-bidders. He demanded that the Commission cancel 36 contracts it had made. The Commission declined. The husband...
Said he, according to reports by his fellow diners: "A bit of propaganda may often grow far beyond its original purpose and get completely out of control. For example, take the story to the effect that during the War Germany boiled down the bodies of her dead soldiers to utilize the resultant fat for fertilizer. That story was released and grew as follows...
...ingenious fellow in my office prepared a fake 'diary' of a German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...
...through the hour whether I should have taken Wyn out of his no trump on the fourth hand last night, the thought of that notice on the board greatly irritated me. But after a while I did get fairly well settled--that nice state between sleep and waking. The fellow on my right is a graduate student and is apparently going to publish when the course is over, and the one on my left--well, he must have been a spy once, cryptograms or something. Of course I might read the book, though it looks pretty heavy--I actually bought...