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Word: goings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Florence Cohalan. Promptly Mr. Cohalan protested that Mr. Shearer should be called first to the stand. Senator Shortridge overruled him. First witness was Clinton Lloyd Bardo, President of New York Shipbuilding Co., subsidiary of American Brown Boveri. He told of a conference in which Shearer had been hired to go to Geneva: "The instructions were that he was to go as an observer and report. He had no authority beyond that. We were to pay a third of the agreed amount of $25,000 for his compensation and expenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...silly ass if I thought for a moment that a man could go to Geneva without power, backing or prestige and break up a conference. I regard Shearer as an undesirable man to have around. He was likely to do more harm than good. He wouldn't stay hitched. You might send him after the cows and he might take a gun and shoot the farmer's pigs instead. I never saw anybody who could get away with a hand-to-hand encounter with a skunk. I don't mean to call Mr. Shearer a skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Epic Lobby | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...true scholars--those who have a passion to go exploring in the world of ideas, tracing down the lost, mislaid, and undiscovered facts pertaining to some particular subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Dean William I. Nichols Writes in Atlantic Monthly on the Convention of Going to College | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...their share of the responsibility. In an article in the current Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere in this issue of the CRIMSON, W. I. Nichols '26 follows the source of the trouble back to the families of the student and holds them to account for forcing their sons to go to college without considering whether they may not have special talents best developed in another...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SQUARE PEGS | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

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