Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further Investigation. Last April, stirred by the Senate's activity, President Coolidge ordered the Department of Justice to look into and report on the Salt Creek lease to Sinclair. Attorney General Sargent turned the matter over to Assistant Attorney General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. The result was awaited attentively, not only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt...
...Patterson at that time took the view "that Fall rejected all the bids under the advertisement and negotiated a private sale not covered by the advertisement, as he had a right to do." To this view Solicitor Patterson stuck last spring. Last week, he said: "It's a matter of legal interpretation The Attorney General took one view of the facts and I took another. That's all. I have no apologies or excuses to make...
...mollification or non-mollification of J. Will Taylor thus became an important matter. The national Republican committee was reported to be "working on him," the hope being to keep him quiet...
...Kentshire. The host, who personally flung wide a welcoming door, is the fiscal arbiter of Britain, rubicund Winston Spencer Churchill, affable but shrewd Chancellor of the Exchequer. Very soon it appeared that Host Churchill was not excessively anxious to discuss and come to an agreement upon the grave matter which had caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed...
...chose not to enter Canaan knowing that it was the promised land only as long as it remained a promise. (The Bible claims, on the contrary, that Jehovah forbade him enter because he had sinned with a foreign light of love.) Untermeyer notes radical differences between Joshua's matter-of-fact record, and Nath's beautified narrative: Joshua itemizes the miraculous God-sent path through the Red Sea as matter of calculated tides and wind...