Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the morning he had conference with Republican Floor Leaders of the Senate ( Charles Curtis of Kansas) and of the House (John Q. Tilson of Connecticut). Both advised against an extra session of Congress. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, occupied most of the President's afternoon...
...wrote a fine tragedy, Devils, which two years ago perished of neglect. ?The play had successful short runs last season in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston. It was conceived and written originally by Frank C. Reilly, whose regular business is electric signs, and rewritten by Cosmo Hamilton, British playwright. More than 20 years ago, tall De Wolf Hopper appeared in a woeful musical comedy based on the Pickwick Papers...
...Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg last week received a letter from Senator William Edgar Borah, who had heard that the proposed new French borrowings in the U. S. would be 100 millions at 6%. Mr. Borah, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the U. S. Senate, recalled that the last U. S. offer to adjust the French debt was to accept fifty cents on the dollar and 1¼% interest. This offer France refused as oppressive, unjust. Said Mr. Borah: "The disparity between the two propositions seems worthy of consideration. Is the American taxpayer being swindled...
Gene Tunney was escorted, after a welcoming demonstration by a Chicago mob, to his training camp at Lake Villa, III. As is usual on such momentous occasions, a dozen motorcycle police "made way" for the celebrity's car at about 60 m.p.h. Hitting a bump, Officer Frank Truba's motorcycle careened into two others-smash. Mr. Tunney leaped from his motor, knelt, helped give first aid. . . . Later somebody asked Mr. Tunney if boxing was conducive to ideals. Said he: "Ideals are congenial...
...whole policy aims at co-operation and good understanding with the United States and England and other powers having an interest in this part of the world. The Washington Four Power Treaty gives us the right of full and frank consultation with the signatory powers and if difficulties arise we shall exercise that right...