Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government's handling the electric by-product "as private enterprise can very well fill this field." Again let the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plants be leased, urged the President...
President Coolidge let it be known that he resented the Britten "encroachment" on Presidential prerogative and the criticism of Coolidge conduct implied in the Britten proposal. It was indicated that Mr. Britten would receive the Administration's most awful rebuke, Silence...
Etiquette demanded that Premier Baldwin consult the U. S. State Department and reply through it to Mr. Britten. Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram. Premier Baldwin let it be known that his answer was "in the same friendly spirit" as Mr. Britten's message but left it to Secretary Kellogg to pass the answer on to Mr. Britten and the U. S. public...
...Britten, unabashed, let it be known that he was pleased with the success of his effort, whether or not it resulted in a Congress-Commons conference. Whatever was said about him in the U. S., he had the satisfaction of seeing a great deal of approving comment in the British press. The worst British editors could find to say was that the Britten message was "not very important" because he is "well known as a Big Navy man." The Daily News (Liberal) remarked: "His real crime is that he has publicly administered to two governments bursting with etiquette a severe...
...Cahill shows that Great Britain bought most in 1913 and still does; while the U.S. buys so little from France today as to stand in sixth place. This is but another way of saying that French goods are kept out of the U.S. by a tariff wall, and let into England by the fact that the Empire is not shielded as Lord Melchett would like to see it shielded...