Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...articles in which the American public would be most interested would be those in which he told his reactions, as a man, from the experience of being President of the United States, I did not, in any way, dictate what was to be written and I did not know what had been written until I read it in manuscript form. Neither Bruce Barton, nor any other professional writer, had anything to do with the preparation of the manuscript. Bruce Barton did know, through a personal letter from the President, that the first article had been written...
...want you to know that I like your style and I think it would be a good thing if you had a large circulation in Canada. Canadians are a reading people and appreciate the things which are worth reading. In my opinion your news magazine abundantly answers that description...
Well did Mr. Gann know that for his wife to reach her eminence, many an official wheel had had to. turn. The Vice President had protested against a State Department ruling which failed to accord Mrs. Gann full recognition (TIME, April 15). The matter was in the hands of Secretary of State Stimson...
...Manhattan arrived last week damp London's courtly George Reeves Smith Esq., perhaps England's leading paladin and patron of the wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...
Over the telephone, Mr. Fisher related his tribulations: "I am [collecting] and I'm blamed if I know why people should get so excited about it. . . . Ever since . . . that story about the phoney Romney - if it is phoney - I have had to have 15 or 20 guards around my house. When people hear about you paying a lot of money for a picture they get the idea that your house is lined with gold and they do everything but climb into your bedroom windows. Honest, I wish this thing would die down. I'm sick of hearing about...