Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...custom at Rotary conventions, Peace, Good Will, Friendship were the words most frequently used in speeches and messages. Thus, President Hoover: ". . . Renewed evidence of the spirit of international goodwill which is so significant a development of our times. . . .'' M. Eugene Newsom, retiring Rotary president: "Ideals may be difficult to define, but friendship ultimately provides its own interpretation. Remarkable it is that the close of a quarter of a century finds us willing to build Rotary's increasing purpose upon that word 'friendship'. . . .'' Sir Henry: "Religious contentions, the predatory desires of monarchs, the thirst...
...Morrow's reputation, coupled with his clearcut Wet stand (TIME, May 26) would make him a prime U. S. anti-Prohibition leader in Congress, waged a win-or-die fight for his biggest opponent, roused Protestant ministers and Y. M. C. A. men, made much of President Hoover's friendship for Representative Fort. To combat this, Senator David Baird Jr. announced: "I am able to assure you that President Hoover himself is intensely interested in seeing New Jersey send Dwight Morrow to the Senate." This drew from the White House a reiteration of its neutrality in primary elections...
...Count Bethlen," said the London Times, which loves to keep a secret until it is cooked and ready for the British public's breakfast, "wishes to knit closer the traditional bond of friendship between Hungary and Britain and nobody has a better right to speak for his country...
...group would be poured into every canvass. . . . This could have no other result than to breed unfounded suspicion and ill-will. It would not only tend to drag the Treaty into party politics, but it would go far to neutralize the efforts which our Government has made ... to cultivate friendship and goodwill." ..." Secretary Stimson acknowledged the resolution from the Foreign Relations Committee in a note to Senator Borah in which he compared the Treaty to any legal contract and added: "I did not attempt to define the duties of the Senate or the scope of its powers in passing upon...
...Immaterial." In an effort to clear up the discordant situation President Hoover summoned his onetime political friend, Senator Borah, who as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee has the Treaty nominally in charge. Not since last year when their friendship was ruptured by tariff and farm relief differences had the President consulted the gentleman from Idaho. For 45 minutes Senator Borah, apathetic toward the Treaty's virtues, listened to the President tell of his hopes and fears, walked out to say it was "immaterial" to him when the Treaty was disposed...