Word: hards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sometimes wish all the newspaper men I come in contact with were as well trained ... as the newspaper men in Washington. I still feel I am sufficiently of a public character that I do not like to give exclusive interviews to one newspaper. . . . Sometimes it is hard to be courteous to newspaper men. When I am courteous and talk to them at all, they want to print everything I say. If I tell them I have nothing to say, they then take some other method of finding a story...
...around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control the spread of the fly in Florida, to exterminate it, i resident Hoover, at Secretary Hyde's suggestion, had spoken promisingly of the moral obligation" resting upon...
...brilliant. Senator Edge worked long and late as a Hoover _ cam paigner last year. In Paris he will be happy indeed because "just across the channel, Charley" (TIME, May 27) will be his good friend, Ambassador Dawes. As Senator Edge was not immediately to take up his hard-won diplomatic assignment, the White House delayed official announcement of his appointment. The surface explanation: As a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Edge was needed through the special session to "help" President Hoover on tariff revision.* The real political reason: If Mr. Edge resigned from the Senate before...
...Hard words wash across the Canadian border into the U. S. in the wake of hard liquor. Last week there was a recrudescence of the argument about the two countries' Prohibition responsibilities. At Ottawa William D. Euler, Canada's Minister of National Revenue whose blunt speaking on the same subject has riled U. S. officials before (TIME, June 3), lectured the Washington government on ways and means of checking rum-smuggling. Treasury officials in Washington snorted indignantly. Two facts are basic in this international dispute: 1) Canada grants clearance of liquor cargoes for the U. S. on excise...
...lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic's pages every day or so. His early assignments were street-corner interviews. His early impressions: "This is bully. Even though I don't know what I'm making, I am getting a great kick out of interviewing. Hard work? I should say so, but then I'm used to it, what with staying in my office in Washington until 12 o'clock almost every night. This experience will be invaluable to me when I start lecturing again in the fall and also will be fine material...