Word: heard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard that Col. Frank L. Smith of Illinois had accepted Governor Small's appointment to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley. Twenty-one Republican Senators and nearly all the Democrats are planning to deny him a seat...
...Harry Micajah Daugherty, then Attorney General, had gone to visit President Harding at the White House. In his apartment at the Wardman Park Hotel, his private secretary heard a shot and a crash. Jesse Smith, a diabetes sufferer, Mr. Daugherty's man Friday, who had a desk but no official position in the Department of Justice, was found dead in the next room. A pistol lay on the floor beside him. He was pronounced a suicide. He had enjoyed life; why had he left it? Washington people said that ill health and imminent scandal had burdened his mind...
...industry was stated with unusual vigor: "Tha plan of the Communists ... is to promote industrial unrest with the intention of driving the workers into increasing misery and discontent until, in sheer despair, they revolt. . . . This is as cruel and callous a policy as any of which I have ever heard. ... It must be stopped. We must prevent thE Communists from misusing the power of the trade unions for their wicked ends. We have no intention of destroying trade unionism or weakening...
Significance. This rumor sharply recalled a rift in the Fascist lute not heard of late amid the banging of the brass. The rift, a sizable cleavage, gaps between Republican and Royalist Fascists. Which, at heart, is Mussolini...
...sales genius too. When the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland contemplated its present 21-story bank and office building, President Bernet got the business of hauling the construction material. That was a triumph. But it lasted briefly, for the late President Alfred Holland Smith of the New York Central heard of the matter. The New York Central had long done considerable business through the Union Trust Co., so President Smith rushed to Cleveland, angry. Nickel Plate President Bernet did not contend with New York Central President Smith. They shared. President Bernet's removal to the Erie leaves space...