Word: letters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harris Amendment was not a part of the League's plan. It had come up suddenly as the solemn rebuke to a joke. Since it gave a fortune to Secretary Mellon, Mr. Mellon had written a letter about it. And Mr. Mellon had said he didn't want the money. Enforcement, wrote he, needed study. Ways must be found to perfect coast guarding, to relieve court congestion (at present 21,000 cases await trial), to improve enforcement personnel. Mr. McBride looked over this letter and was inclined to agree with...
...Bishop Cannon who pounced upon Secretary Mellon's letter, and with a tone of authority which electricity clearly recorded, despatched a long telegram, in part as follows: "Hon. Morris Sheppard, Senate Chamber...
Down from overcast skies in the Panama Canal Zone fell an envelope attached to a wire and a weight. Where it landed, men in uniform gathered excitedly, discussed its exact location, took the letter to more important men in uniform whose faces were grave...
Lieut. Carrington's letter weighed less than two ounces, but it fell from a bombing plane which carried torpedoes weighing 1,800 lbs. each, and it fell within the vital area of the Miraflores and Pedro Miguel Locks of the Panama Canal. And it fell while the U. S. battle fleet was attempting last week to "destroy" the Canal in the most intricate of war games. The U. S. scouting fleet was trying to defend...
...coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard a grandparent's plea not to throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly...