Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herbert Clark Hoover kept quiet as a turtle and let friends explain in his behalf the fact, dug up by busy nobodies, that he and Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, both Quakers, were married by a Catholic priest. The occasion, in 1899, required haste because Mr. Hoover had to sail from California next day for China. The Rev. Raymon Maria Mestries, Monterey mission priest, was no gladder than they that he had a dispensation to marry Protes- tants...
James A. Reed, Missouri's smoldering Democrat, let his boom be taken "out in the open"?for the third or fourth time since early Autumn. "Another Andrew Jackson," was the cry. This time, friends of Alfred Emanuel Smith were not alarmed. Reed men, it was understood, were to organize delegations in States lack- ing "favorite sons." The probable result: having been instructed for a Wet, Reed delegates would, if and when his chances died at the convention, have only to exercise religious tolerance to swing to the other outstanding Wet, Candidate Smith. And Senator Reed is the author...
...party lines, the Committee voted 8 to 6 to dismiss Mr. Wilson's request. Up stood Inquisitor Reed in the Senate and repri- manded the Elections Committee so fearsomely that its chairman, tall Senator Shortridge of California, and his seven fellow Republicans, soon recanted their decision and agreed to let a subcommittee re-examine Vare-Wilson ballots cast two years ago in six counties, including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh...
...else that thinks of it, can help to have lasting credit given where due. You can do what many another has done under similar circumstances and write to the Hero Fund Commission, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Commission will acknowledge your let ter, ask your references, investigate the fiery rescue and, unless it is an unusual year for heroism, your hero is likely to receive a Carnegie Medal, the only award of its kind in the U. S. made by an organization other than a club or the Government...
Immediately, "this body," the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, which, with official delegations from 28 denominations, was holding annual session in Cleveland, became an uproar. Said the Rev. Dr. George Summey of New Orleans: "Now let's be careful lest we touch matters of a political nature and commit ourselves to something that will soil the garments of the Bride of Christ. . . . There is a wide difference of opinion. Now, let's go carefully." Colored Baptist Dr. W. H. Jernagin pleaded in its favor on the grounds that it would give the Negro church confidence...