Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a statement defending his rate-changing power as it stands. He said it was a wise power, protecting public interest from long delay, guarding against too-frequent revisions of the whole tariff. It had been held constitutional, he reminded. It did not make the President a despot, etc., etc. Having thus...
What Ignace Jan Paderewski was thinking as he sat on the terrace of his villa at Morges, above Lake Geneva, Switzerland, one evening last week, is not a matter of record. He might have been thinking of his U. S. tour, scheduled to begin on Oct. 22, or he might simply have been reviewing with an after-dinner pleasure the events of that day. He had spent part of the morning discussing with a gardener the construction of a new hothouse and later, satisfied that the new house would be the equal of the others in which...
Appendicitis is not a casual matter for a man of 69. Before the attack had reached its height or the doctor made his diagnosis Paderewski must have known what it was. His case was serious, yet the amazing sequence of that evening was not the hurried drive down the dark road through the park and on to Lausanne, not the operation, or his quick recovery, but his own refusal to change his plans. He was confident that he would be out of it safely in a short time, and in a shorter time than anyone dared hope...
...annual report for 1927-28 on withdrawing coaches from the direct supervision of intercollegiate games. The subject is not a new one and perhaps does not require any detailed discussion at just this moment. I venture, however, to remark upon one of two considerations which affect the whole matter...
...play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more objective and intelligent than the players themselves under the excitement of the moment are always able to command. To turn the supervision of this matter over to medical officers is to invite the suspicion that they are merely carrying out a coach's instructions. Nevertheless, I am sure that any one of several possible procedures would care for this case satisfactorily...