Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British] Council of the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders has asked the [U. S.] National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement to see to the payment of (Confederate bonds issued by Mississippi and other southern States, and held in large part by British subjects. You do the Council a grave injustice. They have too much good sense to ask for the payment of Confederate bonds. Hopes on that score died when General Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in 1865; at best, they could not have survived the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution...
Governor Kohler took the witness stand early in the trial to answer prosecution questions. A white carnation bobbed in his buttonhole. A pearl pin was stuck in his black tie. Grave, composed, good-natured, he defended himself, his family, his company in a manner befitting one in his position. The crowd in the courtroom listened quietly, attentively...
...Tycoons who ruled Japan while the power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
Yesterday the grave was dug, and Van Valkenberg went to the garage to get Trixie. From her blanket shroud the dog scrambled up and ran to her master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...
...Melville E. Stone [an A. P. founder] must be turning in his grave if he is aware of the kind of sob stuff that is now appearing in the Associated Press reports. . . . Mr. Kent Cooper, the present able general manager . . . has broken with tradition after tradition of the service- the comic strips are his latest venture. So the Associated Press has long since abandoned its original conception of being a service devoted exclusively to the gathering of news; it is now engaged in the merchandising of purely amusement features. ... I append two of them [human interest stories] which I clipped...