Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Calvin Coolidge, then U. S. President, pushed aside Senate bill No. 3185 of the 69th Congress on June 24, 1926, and let it lie untouched before him until July 3, when the Congress adjourned, he little thought that he was laying the groundwork for a test case on a Presidential procedure more than a century old-the old procedure of Pocket Veto...
...anecdote with a moral was told in Vatican City last week to illustrate the familiar saying that "Pope Pius has never told a lie...
Presents 1) From Norwegian Americans a $4,500 oil painting by Jonas Lie, entitled Herring Cove At Dawn, and presented in Oslo last week by His Excellency the U. S. Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian...
...certain that while football is uniformly low, the group is not as low during and after their season as they are in the second half-year which may be called the off-season. These figures give the 'lie' to anyone who contends that football crowds are synonymous with overemphasis and consequently affect the players disastrously...
...said that Mr. Alexander considers that his greatest responsibilities lie not in the management of the banking business but in the guidance of the bank's employes. With proper help, the souls and minds of his hundreds of workers would be stimulated, developed, perfected. But thoughtless, untactful employers resulted in employes with ambitions thwarted and stunted. Mr. Alexander's first concern lay not with the fortunes of the bank but with its souls...