Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gaining anything from it. I would as soon talk diplomacy with a man with a pipe in his mouth as any other way. My first two months in England will be reserved for my dear old friends of the British Army and the reparations dealings. I want to see General Sir Travers Clark [Wartime Chief of the British Supply Service] who saved the American Army during the first few months...
With the Tariff rolling along toward the Senate, the Watson leadership collapsed utterly. Where the President had declared for a "limited" tariff revision, Leader Watson declared for a "general" tariff revision and then, amid heckling, attempted to draw a fine distinction between "general"' revision and "unlimited revision" which he technically opposed. His argument: there would be 4,400 items in an "unlimited" tariff bill; the pending tariff bill contains only 3,000 items; ergo, it is a "general" bill...
...capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small grey hat, moonlight grey hose, snakeskin slippers. She was well pleased to be there; to be greeted by the First Lady; to see Mrs. Good, the Secretary of War's wife, pouring the tea, and Mrs. Attorney-General Mitchell conversing politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon, a Mrs. Kelly, a Mrs. Free, whose husbands are U. S. Representatives from New York, Pennsylvania and California, respectively, and many another lady of Washington's officialdom. The guest in the blue chiffon gown with moonlight hose and snakeskin slippers...
...Democratic) carried a long front page story in which Correspondent J. Fred Essary took pains to mention that Mrs. De Priest had arrived early, stayed late, enjoyed herself hugely; and that Congressman De Priest differed greatly from William H. Lewis of Boston, the Negro Taft-time Assistant Attorney-General, who invariably declined invitations to the functions of white Washington officialdom. In Texas, a Negro-subjugating State which voted for Hoover in 1928, the one woman in the State Senate, Miss Margie Neal, got up, offered a resolution, declared...
...part, last year, of the chain of magazines published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.* Last week another change was announced. Starting with next September, The Magazine of Business will become a weekly called The Business Week. System will go on as before. But The Business Week, instead of having general discourses on business, industry, finance, will pertain most specifically to business news, with merely some of the features of the old magazine. Thus did full-page advertisements in metropolitan newspapers tell about The Business Week...