Word: frees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Hull trudged into the White House one day last week looking glum and tired. Despite his reiterated warnings that war abroad was imminent, and that if it came the President of the U. S. should have a hand more free than he is allowed under the present Neutrality Act, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee had just voted finally not to revise Neutrality at this session of Congress. The Committee's vote was close: 12-to-11. It was particularly painful to Cordell Hull because one of those who voted against him was his old friend Walter...
...word, "of check stubs being found signed by a certain German. There is much talk of a certain French Deputy. Various members of the always peculiar 'French-German Committee,' among whose members could generally be found champions of giving Führer Adolf Hitler a free hand in Eastern Europe-naturally only by coincidence-have found sleep more difficult, it is said...
Since then he has been given almost a free hand with the paper and has instituted what he calls a "streamlined Chronicle." Most of its news is departmentalized, lumped under general headings. Onetime Editor Chester Harvey Rowell writes a column on the editorial page that frequently disagrees with the editorial; shy, studious Arthur Eggleston writes his own opinions of labor problems (for which the Chronicle disclaims responsibility); Royce Brier writes a front-page column on foreign affairs; Joseph Henry Jackson conducts the best book column in California. Of San Francisco's four newspapers, the Chronicle is the only...
...across the toll bridge between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, told the bridge keeper: "I'll come back some day in my Cadillac and pay you that nickel." Last week he crossed the bridge again and lamented: "Here I am in my Cadillac and I find the bridge is free...
Born a slave, liberated in 1865 when his master, a Confederate captain, returned from the war, Richard Wright had his resolute, ambitious mother to thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...