Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank & Fearless...
...Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, who was President Coolidge's spokesman at the Geneva conference, gives what is probably the most honest and accurate expression of the mixed motives behind the present "Big Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find a basis of agreement with other...
...president. Until the people gain the right to elect their own judges the Hamiltonian principle that the people are not qualified to govern themselves will continue and progressive policies can never become dominant." The query as to whether this would not bring politics into the judiciary brought the frank reply. "There can never be more politics in the judiciary than there are right now. Appointment of judges inevitably brings political entanglements. There will be politics in the judiciary until the judges are directly responsible to the people just as the legislature and executive officers...
Sunday Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, dictated a letter to the leading Ohio booster, giving him permission to toss a nominatory monkey-wrench into the works. Since Ohio's plans, and particularly those of its favorite son. Senator Frank B. Willis, had not included the Secretary of Commerce, the official entrance of the interloper made a good deal of hubbub on the second floor of Masonic Hall. Hoover has flouted the old Ohio tradition of unanimous nomination of the favorite son. No wonder Secretary Willis accuses the Secretary of "violating the decencies of politics." And by mail...
Many years ago the late Captain James C. Corrigan bought vast iron ore fields in the Lake Superior district. The late Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller and the late William Rockefeller, was his partner. John D. Rockefeller loaned them money, taking a mortgage on the ore lands. He foreclosed the mortgage for needs of his own and later sold the minerals to the U. S. Steel Corp., prof iting greatly. Captain Corrigan was wrecked financially. Frank Rockefeller nourished an antagonism toward his brother John...