Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elder Statesman Elihu Root arrived at the White House, just back from Geneva where, with other famed jurists, he had been revising World Court statutes. President Hoover kept him for luncheon. They talked of Mr. Root's new formula for getting the U. S. into the Court over the Senate's reservation against advisory opinions. Secretary of State Stimson was present, a statesman with an ear quick and open to Elder Statesman Root, who gave him his first law job and later took him in as a junior partner...
President Machado's attentions to President Coolidge. They became indeed the "great and good friends" of diplomatic parlance. Mr. Coolidge returned to Washington full of admiration and praise for Cuba and its president. Secretary of State Kellogg took his cue from the White House and anti-Machado agitators kept well under cover...
...West Indies, or to Panama and Ecuador. The deal to cooperate was consummated after many interruptions. United's Rentschler was interrupted frequently by needs of his seven subsidiary companies. A. C. A.'s Hoyt, although he seems sequestered behind his Hayden, Stone & Co. desk, is kept hopping out of Manhattan on affairs of the four aviation concerns of which he is chairman - Wright Aeronautical, Keystone-Loening, Travel Air, Aviation Corp. of the Americas (Pan-American...
...years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures, has been in wide demand. Last autumn he revised it and recently C. V. Mosby of St. Louis published the second edition (price...
...named Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and was located on the Merrimac River. Famed among U. S. textile plants became Amoskeag; countless were the cotton bales it turned into cotton cloth. A 1927 textile survey rated Amoskeag as world's largest cotton maker. Its cottons, its wools and its rayons kept busy 800,000 spindles, 25,000 looms. Wherever textiles were mentioned, New England mills and Amoskeag were among the first to be named. But the Waters have not been so Swift lately, and the Place for Fish has not stood so high. Amoskeag's 1928 report was last week...