Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, at dinner in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel, the Christian Herald award was given to a layman: Fred B. Smith, moderator of the National Council of Congregational Churches, chairman of the U. S. section of the World Alliance for International Friendship, ardent Prohibitionist. Said the Association: "You have been chosen because the Christian Church for more than 40 years has had in you a demonstration of what can be wrought by a layman who is wholly given to the purposes of Christ." Moderator Smith, Mrs. Smith (his second) will sail for Palestine Feb. 16 on S. S. Calgarie...
...fact that he had been hired because he was the President's friend and attorney brought an explanation from Mr. Shattuck: "Such an impression is untruthful and unfair to the President and myself. Neither I nor any other friend of the President would attempt to use such a friendship in the manner suggested. . . . It would defeat its own purpose. ... I informed Mr. Hoover of my connection [with the Cuba sugar lobby], not to obtain his approval but so that there would be no misunderstanding. I have never sought anything from the President...
Great was the friendship between the late great Theodore Roosevelt and Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, onetime (1912-18) British Ambassador to the U. S. Last fortnight were published letters to and from Sir Cecil, among them, illuminating dark spots in history, some 25,000 new words of Rooseveltiana.† Wrote President Roosevelt...
...Tiger, whom I used to know before the break in relations severed our old friendship, supported two aunts and a grandmother by parlaying his bets against Harvard. It seems to me a tragic thing that these three fine old ladies must now go hungry since the source of their income has been cut off. And the worst of it is that their ordeal is imposed for a matter of petty pride. Princeton, as I understand it, felt that Harvard was too high hat. Whether or not this complaint is well founded makes very little difference. It is never necessary...
...bury Caesar, M. Briand reached his first climax by weeping with a purpose over Germany's late, great Dr. Stresemann, his colleague in striving for Peace and swift evacuation of the Rhine: "While he lived there were Germans who criticized and ridiculed Stresemann. Many called him traitor for his friendship to France! Now they heap flowers on his tomb. . . . The French Nationalists have attacked me, as the German Nationalists attacked Stresemann! . . . He died at his task. Must one die then, to prove one is sincere...