Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rockefeller Jr., former President Burton of the University of Chicago, President Lowell of Harvard, William Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor-General of the Philippines, were secured as endorsers. A U. S. delegation of 25, headed by Mr. Wilbur and including William Allen White, Prof. George H. Blakeslee, Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Prof. W. W. Willoughby, President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College and others, gathered. Similar efforts were undertaken in other countries?in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines. A list of problems of the Pacific was prepared and each national group undertook preliminary study...
...When Jeremiah Smith, Jr., League of Nations Commissioner General in Hungary and possibly one of Boston's most distinguished citizens, appeared last week before the Council of the League (see Page 8), he had a fine tale to tell of Hungary...
...Yankee Jeremiah Smith, Boston's lawyer prodigy and Hungary's financial dictator,* sailed last week from his native land for the scene of his labors. He responded readily to the interrogations of the Amerikai Magyar Nepsava, a leading American Hungarian journal...
...optimistic eye, imitated that time-honored English practice of writing to The Times by penning a letter to The New York Times. In a considerable amount of language he made the following points, confirming Mr. Smith's own statements: Hungary, led gently in the right financial path by Jeremiah Smith . . . seems more contented with her economic lot than appeared possible a year or so ago. Her budget is in order and she is not drawing on League of Nations' funds for current expenses. . . . There have been rumors that part of the League's financial support was really...
...Commotion. Boston business men assembled at lunch-1,000 of them-to honor the new President of their Chamber of Commerce. Owen D. Young and Jeremiah Smith Jr., "King of Hungary" (TIME, Feb. 23, HUNGARY), were star guests. So was Charles G. Dawes, of whom a speech was demanded: It was the way I said 'it ["Senate Rules"] not what I said, that gave rise to irritation in Washington. My grief over that irritation is somewhat tempered by a remark of George Bernard Shaw, that no offensive truth is properly presented unless it causes irritation...