Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fished with the President-Elect Hoover off Florida, and there suggested the name of William DeWitt Mitchell for Attorney-General. He dropped in for a friendly morning chat the day Mr. Hoover became President. He was among the first asked to join the medicine-ball exercise at 7 a. m. back of the White House...
...secret tête-a-têtes was poker-faced Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. Surprising credence was achieved by a wild rumor that Mr. Young contemplated the resignation of his friend and protege, Seymour Parker Gilbert, as Agent-General of Reparations and had in mind as his successor M. Moreau. On the assumption that Germany really cannot pay as much as France is sure she can, it might be well for the French government's chief financial adviser to find that out for himself in Berlin. Persistent rumors apart, there was no reason for supposing that Mr. Young leaned...
...idea of a French statesman, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, was approved by Mr. Hoover as suggestive of a means of compromise between Great Britain and the U. S. in the cruiser dispute. Briefly this idea as unfolded to the Committee last year is that under a disarmament pact giving Great Britain the right to build a certain tonnage of destroyers, she might transfer a portion of this allowance out of the destroyer class and build cruisers under it instead...
...Hello! Hello! Hello! Yes, I'm here. I'm speaking. Who are you? It's Scotland Yard! The Yard asks you a favor, ladies and gentlemen, not to wipe your wine glasses, as the waiters and plain-clothes men are taking fingerprints...
After the War, the irrepressible first mate, Kapitänleutnant Helmuth von Mücke, said that the captains of captured British ships always seemed more anxious about whether they would be allowed to save their supply of whiskey than about anything else. It also seemed to Kap.-Lt. von Mücke that the captains' loyalty to the line employing them was greater than to their country. In several instances, he said, they revealed to him the proximity of ships of competing lines...