Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple man. tall, with grey hair, a mouth that smiles easily, steady patient eyes, a sincere handclasp for all comers. Secretary Hyde is without pretense. When he is asked a question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
...Practically 100% of the rum runners are American citizens who ply their trade in U. S. boats": 2) "Only 2% to 5% of the liquor in the U. S. comes from Canada." Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran answered statement No.1: "No one is in a position to know whether the boats . . . are Canadian-owned or American-owned because nearly all vessels which Canada has reported as clearing for the U. S. with liquor cargoes are not recorded in the U. S." Statement No. 2 was particularly offensive to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lowman in charge of Prohibition...
...staff." With his eye also on publicity, Newsman Upshaw consented to have his stories "by-lined" (signed), his picture placed in the Graphic's pages every day or so. His early assignments were street-corner interviews. His early impressions: "This is bully. Even though I don't know what I'm making, I am getting a great kick out of interviewing. Hard work? I should say so, but then I'm used to it, what with staying in my office in Washington until 12 o'clock almost every night. This experience will be invaluable...
Reddening angrily Mr. Churchill barked, "You are not going to incriminate me!" then insinuatingly, "How did the Foreign Secretary know Lord Lloyd had met Mr. Churchill? Did I hear him say he had taken steps to find...
Last week Bishop Cannon fired back. He sent a telegram to ecclesiastical journals, widely reprinted. Excerpts: "I DESIRE THE CHURCH TO KNOW THAT I SHALL AT THE PROPER TIME ASK FOR FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST ME, EVEN THOUGH INSTIGATED BY ENEMIES, AND DISTORTED, AND MISREPRESENTED BY HOSTILE WET PRESS. FRIENDS CONFERRED WITH THINK IT UNWISE TO ASK FOR SUCH CHURCH ACTION UNTIL COMPLETION OF THE BANKRUPTCY PROCEEDINGS. . . . MEANTIME, I SIMPLY STATE TO MY BRETHREN THAT I HAVE NOT VIOLATED ANY CIVIL OR MORAL...