Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pittsburgh the name of Laughlin has a potency approaching that of Carnegie, Frick, Mellon. Pittsburgh's steel-minded burghers do homage to the firm name: Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. Last week, on recommendation of Pennsylvania's Senator Reed. President Hoover appointed bald, courtly Irwin Boyle Laughlin, long-time diplomat, as Ambassador to Spain...
...staff together. I can hardly imagine a more careful or conscientious man." While Secretary of Commerce, President Hoover was impressed by Laughlin's ability when, as minister at Athens, he aided U. S. corporations in securing a munificent contract for waterworks construction. A man of affairs with long foreign experience, he precisely fits the Hoover pattern for diplomats...
...influence of Secretary of State Stimson, who, a onetime (1927-29) Philippine governor, said that a tax on Philippine sugar would ruin the Islands. The sugar Senators, arguing chiefly to impress their sugar-growing constituents, assumed that if the Filipinos were made a free people as they have so long agitated to be, it would not bother the U. S. conscience whether they were ruined...
...aloft, the largest U. S. Army bomb was released, a 4,000 Ib. mass streaking down into a bullet-nibbled, shell-gnawed wood. A majestic, gloomy geyser of earth and debris arose, hiding the trees. At the edge of the range, some two miles away, listeners heard a long dull booommm...
...warmly wrung the hand of Quakerdom's distinguished S. Solis Cohen, the physician who saved his life in Philadelphia two years ago. In gratitude the Prime Minister stopped over for three hours, facetiously recalled to august lunchers at the Bellevue-Stratford how "Philadelphians used to come in with long faces and look at me over the foot of the bed and reveal in their countenances how long I had to live...