Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the curious were still wondering precisely what the alleged "infirmity" might have been-perhaps the prostate trouble long accepted as fact by newsmen who knew Wilson-an answer to Professor Pitkin at length did appear. It came from a man who knew Woodrow Wilson with undoubted intimacy-Joseph Patrick Tumulty, for 13 years his private secretary, confidant, biographer. Choking with indignation, Mr. Tumulty assailed the anonymity of Professor Pitkin's informant: "If this be a privilege reserved to psychologists or psychoanalysts, as Professor Pitkin is supposed to be, as well as a teacher in a school of journalism...
Last week, seven lucky Senators found themselves face to face with the president of one of the largest corporations in the U. S. The Senators were lucky because they had the great industrialist before them as a witness in his own behalf. He had resigned (for as long as necessary) from the $100,000-per-year presidency of International Harvester Co. ($350,000,000) to accept President Hoover's appointment as $12,000-per-year chairman of the Federal Farm Board. The Senators had the power to question him closely in deciding whether...
...trying to handle this money with a reasonable measure of safety. As long as I am a member of the board that will be my purpose. I do not want to be confirmed under any impression that any other policy will be followed...
...charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time for Minister Roberts to match the earthy eloquence of the Lord Privy Seal, he arose, a somewhat pitiful sight, embarrassed...
With a bilingual title reminiscent of the Middle Ages, Gerald, Baron Strickland and Conte della Catena has long been friend to the Island of Malta. His mother, the eminent Maltese Louisa Bonici, bore him on the island, and bequeathed to him an Italian title to add to that of his English sire. When he went to England to be educated at Cambridge, Lord Strickland, not forgetting his island friends, wrote vituperative letters to the London Times defending their rights. After graduation he continued to assist in improving Malta conditions. Now he is Head of the Ministry, Minister of Police, virtually...