Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oliver autobiography. Foursquare, will be published next autumn by Macmillan. Other books of his include: The Good Shepherd, The Six Pointed Cross in the Dust...
President Coolidge paid a magnificent visit to President Machado in January, 1928, when he journeyed in state to Havana to open the Pan-American Conference. Generous and flattering were President Machado's attentions to President Coolidge. They became indeed the "great and good friends" of diplomatic parlance. Mr. Coolidge returned to Washington full of admiration and praise for Cuba and its president. Secretary of State Kellogg took his cue from the White House and anti-Machado agitators kept well under cover...
...thousands of people. Why, only a few nights ago, Harry Curtis, son of the Vice President of the U. S., came to my club and congratulated me from the centre of the floor. He is of the type of people who know that I am an entertainer for good wholesome...
...irate editor, but pointed out that Soviet Russia is too big to be bluffed, even by the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The only practicable means of getting out Soviet news is that employed by Walter Duranty of the New York Times. Day after day, with infinite patience and good humor, he files despatches which cost his paper a great deal, and only occasionally contain really big news. By carrying something every day and ingratiating himself after long years with the Soviet government, patient Walter Duranty is able to get past the censor all the news of Russia that really...
...convinced Leader MacDonald that as leader of the party there was but one thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party be returned to power they would not preserve "England's word as good as her bond!" Sir Austen Chamberlain (with a Victorian shudder): "That is the only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that the American debt settlement was bad; but inside this House...