Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Merchants Trust Bank, a signatory, said: "The manifesto is not intended to have any reference to the United States." Apparently this view was shared by other U. S. signatories who pointed to the title of the manifesto which explicitly restricts its application to Europe. Public opinion seemed inclined to let the document drop as a mere "pious plea" like those often uttered for "peace," "disarmament" and what...
...Carmi Thompson, personal investigator for President Coolidge in the Philippines (TIME, July 19 et seq.), known among Filipinos as "the Big White Friend of the Big White President," traveled last week 1,400 miles in and down anarchy-torn China while its War Lords desisted from their battles to let pass his all-steel, U. S. built "Blue Express...
...under no circumsances have been persuaded to blow up his train. They were spies of the Cantonese War Lord Chang Kaishek. Their intent was to cut off supplies from the Shanghai War Lord, Sun Chuan-feng. Well-informed of the movements of the Big White President's friend, they let him pass, mindful that his influence would bear directly upon whether the U. S. ever recognizes the Cantonese Government, recently extended by the conquests of Chang Kai-shek to include most of central China (TIME...
...have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
William Gibbs McAdoo: "Last week in Los Angeles before the Pacific Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, I said: 'There is no office I want less than that of President of the United States. . . Let me tell you that these things are convictions that I have, and I don't care a continental if they destroy me politically and physically. I put righteousness ahead of politics always...