Word: informals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bothering you again, but when I come upon such a magnificent thing as I just have, I must inform you. The following is copied from an In Memoriam in the Detroit Free Press of March 15, 1928. I cannot send you the actual notice for it is securely pasted in my notebook; but I will swear for its authenticity...
Although the letter of Mr. L. H. Thomas of Van Camp's, Louisville, Ky., is too ridiculous to require comment, perhaps it would be charitable to inform him that "those funny pictures" of gentlemen of "similar appearance" to a "hound," on the covers of recent issues of TIME, have included, among other men of esteem, prestige and accomplishment, portraits of President Coolidge, General Pershing, Ambassador Herrick and Colonel Lindbergh...
World Peace. To the Council on Foreign Relations, at a banquet in Manhattan presided over by John W. Davis, Secretary Kellogg expounded "The War Prevention Policy of the United States." He generalized on the subject of multilateral treaties to outlaw war in such a way as to inform Foreign Minister Briand of France-who at about that time was nibbling his pen in Paris over an answer to Secretary Kellogg's last note-that the U. S. will not consider any military alliance to prevent war, but only a peaceful compact, and that the U. S. does...
More tidings arrived in Rome from Scranton, Pa., to inform His Holiness that the Right Rev. Thomas C. O'Reilly, former pastor of the Church of St. John the Evangelist at Cleveland, Ohio, had been enthroned as Bishop of the Scranton Diocese. Perusing these, the Pope was able to imagine the city-wide scenes of jubilation which had marked the splendid event. He perhaps pictured to himself the flag-filled town, the excited citizens, the procession of 400 clergymen, the important witnesses, the strange and architecturally miscellaneous cathedral to which humble U. S. worshippers came, and at which...
...history of Community Chests is lengthy, evolutionary, and increasingly notable. In 320 U. S. cities, Community Chests now function; the Association of Community Chests and Councils exists merely as a clearing house to inform communities how they may put Community Chests into effect in a purely local connection. Philadelphia is the largest U. S. city to have a Community Chest; in Cleveland, (which in 1913 organized a federation for charity and philanthropy generally regarded as the beginning of the modern Community Chest movement), Denver, Detroit and elsewhere they work with eminent success. Cincinnati's Community Chest, organized as such...