Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Labor a serious injustice in relation to the case of Anna Komarmicka. I felt there must be some explanation which you did not have that would take the sting out of the article. I wrote to Secretary Davis, and herewith hand you his statement concerning the matter, which is most satisfactory and very creditable to the Department and to Secretary Davis. I feel sure you will make the necessary correction when you have all the facts before you. J. W. LEECH Leech & Leech Attorneys at Law Ebensburg, Pa. Anna Komarmicka, Chicago milliner, had last spring gone to visit...
There was a burst of applause, the applause that always follows this speech, no matter where delivered, or by whom. This time the deliverer was Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. The occasion was the opening of a new Gimbel Brothers department store, in Philadelphia. Three generations of the Messrs. Gimbel and their wives applauded. "The store," Governess Ross said, "is a tribute to womankind." It is also, of course, a place for a woman's money...
...organs thought differently. They thought that the Secretary of State had threatened to do something (perhaps withdraw recognition from the Calles Government, perhaps lift the embargo which prevents arms being shipped into Mexico over the U. S. border) if the Calles Administration does not come to heel in the matter of its land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25) which the Coolidge Administration deems retroactive and confiscatory. As a matter of fact Secretary Kellogg had spoken as if the Administration might do something, but everyone knew that Congress was in no mood to fight or intervene in Mexico at present...
...Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others who are interested, my judgment in the matter." The action of Rome, he pursued, "seems wholly at variance with the teaching of the Roman Church as to the sacredness of marriage. . . . What right has a Vatican court to pass upon the validity of marriage between members of another communion, solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws...
This stirring history is republished now as a matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...