Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast is the project, so complex the factors, that Nominee Hoover might well have wished to avoid stump discussion of Boulder Dam. But Senator Johnson, his alleged ally, without whose friendship California might not be Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...
...Brown Derby first met Boss Brennan in San Francisco in 1920. Both were experts in friendship; quickly and together they fashioned one, Al and George. A fortnight ago George lay dying. Al got daily bulletins. When George died, Al was almost the first to telephone the relict and her daughter. Busy, he bustled through the most pressing business, put aside his speech, got his friend, Contractor Kenny, to come up with the "St. Nicholas" for quick passage to Chicago. With them went a dozen other friends and his son, Arthur. At Englewood, a company of politicians boarded the train...
Publisher Block is a specialist in friendship. The word itself, with all its synonyms, affects him strongly. "Friendship" is the name of his estate, and next month, when he boards his new private car (the first he has owned) for a vacation in Maine, he will find "Friendship" lettered on its sides. Almost, friendship is a secondary business with Publisher Block. On his office desk lies a small brown leather book, stencilled "A Deed a Day." Here his secretary eagerly inscribes the Block benefactions: $5,000 to Commander Byrd, $10,000 for a new cathedral, $500 for the widow...
...golf course went Paul and William with the remains of Rudy. They dug a trench and raised a headstone. They inscribed: "He left us." Publisher Block likes to walk, puffing ever so slightly, from the house to the headstone. It is proof to him that his sons are absorbing friendship...
...China, as follows: Give China her recognition quickly, sympathetically, heartily. It is only one hundred and fifty years since we were winning our own independence. There may be a time when complications with Japan and all the other envious nations which hate us may make China's friendship valuable. We are a self-reliant people, but the time may come when we would be pleased, if only for the satisfaction of it, to hear four hundred million Chinese voices singing, "Uncle Sam, we are here...