Word: greenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letter to William R. Green of Iowa, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Mr. Mellon directly opened the question of bonus vs. reduced taxes?deliberately opening the issue several weeks before it would normally be approached, deliberately striking the first blow. He laid out a program for tax reduction, showing just how much in dollars and cents it will save to each group of 14,000,000 incoming taxpayers. He added: "A soldiers' bonus would postpone tax reduction not for one but for many years to come...
...soon forgotten, but fresh, well cared for ones can never be. Thirty thousand headstones, tended by native Frenchmen, should do more toward promoting peace than a dozen disarmament conferences. Major Foster says, "...Nothing could be more impressive than the peaceful effect of the modest white stones showing against the green turf under the shade of protecting trees." It is the French, not the Americans, who will be the more impressed. They will have the reminders always before their eyes...
...journalists, chose as his subject the difficulties attending pre-War and post-War debt settlements with the Soviet Government. He spoke for about 20 minutes and throughout his speech he used golfing metaphors. The Allies were " bunkered " for the moment. A skillfully used "niblick " would put them " on the green." He expected to "hole out" in a few days. Tchicherin had momentarily laid the conference a " stymie," et cetera...
Latterly, Mr. Morley has worked with a publishing house, with a magazine and on various newspapers. At present he conducts a colum called The Bowling Green for the New York Evening Post. He lives on Long Island, is married, has three children. Determinedly domestic, he is seldom to be seen in town of an evening, although he spends, as a rule, several months of the year in a New York City apartment...
...Widener Library. Starr was a lieutenant of the Cold stream Guard of the British army and was killed in action on September 15, 1916, at Giuchy in France. In his undergraduate days at the University he won his "H" on the football team during four successive years. The green wreath has a small Union Jack Pinned...