Word: formulas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elder Statesman Elihu Root last year gone as President Hoover's unofficial representative to Geneva. There he rephrased the U. S. Senate's objectionable "Reservation V" so that it fell more politely and acceptably upon foreign ears. The paraphrase since has become famed as "The Root Formula." It will be submitted by the President to the Senate in lieu of "Reservation V." It amounts to this: Whenever the World Court, with the U. S. as a member, is asked to opine on any question, let the U. S. State Department be previously informed. If the question...
Gradually conquering his legalistic distaste for revolutionary governments (except in Central America), Statesman Stimson has formulated a loose three-point recognition formula for such cases. To win U. S. welcome, provisional governments must: 1) guarantee fulfillment of international obligations;? 2) have the support of all its people; 3) protect foreign lives and property. This formula Secretary Stimson kept handy last week to apply to the other six South American countries which have had no revolutions this year...
...carry on business as usual in the barnlike headquarters of the Fresh Air Taxi Company in uptown Manhattan. They go to a meeting of the Mystic Order of the Knights of the Sea, talk to Madame Queen on the telephone, mispronounce words of four or more syllables by the formula of substituting "re" for "dis" as in "regusted," and "ul" for "or" as in "incorpulated." The story deals with a party to which Duke Ellington's orchestra, of Harlem's famed Cotton Club, are driven in the Fresh Air Taxi, and with the deed to some southern property. It must...
...recent short stories. Some of them: A farmer accuses himself of the murder of his wife, but he imagined it all. A hired man falls in love with the lady he works for, but doesn't interrupt her wedding after all. A bitter woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability...
...have met President Maloney fail to tell their friends about him. Work in the mines gave him a physique such as few tycoons possess; 16-hour mine days gave him an enormous disdain for the eight-hour office day. He speaks briefly, forcefully, never detours issues. His formula for success is simple, not banal: "I have not cluttered my head with things not in my line...