Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Under Secretary of State; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, agricultural economist from Stanford University; John W. O'Leary, President of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, and Dr. Julius Klein, Director of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. The President let it be known that he regarded Dr. Klein as the best informed man in the Government Service on this Government's relation to the economic situation...
...Bill" Thompson, idol of half Chicago, its mayor from 1915-23, made his chief issue the King of England, swung his huge hams of fists, slung mud. Of his onetime intimate, Dr. Robertson, Mr. Thompson said: "The doc is slinging mud. I'm not descending to personalities, but let me tell you if you want to see a nasty sight you; watch Doc Robertson eating in a restaurant. Eggs in his whiskers, soup on his vest: you'd think the doc got his education driving a garbage wagon...
...Well now, when I saw the Consul's signal of distress I said to myself: 'Here's where I get either a medal or a court martial.' So I leaned over the rail and said, 'Let 'er go, Benny...
...some modifications, upon which he got a patent in 1852. There were law suits, in which Edward A. Clark, Manhattan lawyer, represented Singer. Lawyer and client formed the Singer corporation. Mr. Hopper was their bookkeeper at $20 a week. To him they came. Said Singer: "Clark won't let me be president, and I swear I won't let him." Said Clark: "Our president ought to be a married man. The office requires some dignity. . . . Don't you know some nice girl that you would like to marry?" Mr. Hopper did know such a girl, married...
...Behold," Conductor Furtwangler seemed to say: "This is out of the Bible phrased by that humble countryman of mine, Martin Luther. This music is by another countryman, aged 34, who had lately lost his mother. This is not church ritual but the inner feeling of people like ourselves. Come, let us understand." They wanted to stand up and cheer at the intermission after the third movement, but he bade them wait, with a gesture, until the tender parable of mortality should be rounded with the exalted parable of resurrection-"Blessed - are the dead which die in the Lord." They waited...