Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will you let me have a line from you on this...
...about it. Last week, Editor E. G. Burkham of the Dayton (Ohio) Journal, close friend of Ambassador Herrick and newspaper partner of his son, Parmely Herrick, called at the White House to tell President Coolidge that Ambassador Herrick would soon be well enough to return to Paris. President Coolidge let it be known that when Ambassador Herrick is ready to resume his post, instructions will be ready for him in the matter of the Briand proposal, instructions looking toward a treaty's adoption...
...Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
Meanwhile we are let into the secret that bootleggers have been using his house as a storing place for everything from champagne to bad gin. Kay, the bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until...