Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answer: In issue Nov. 7, p. 42, with reference to Minneapolis Junior Association of Commerce campaign to raise the needed sum for Symphony you mentioned A. K. Johnson of Wayzata, Minn, driving miles to add his $1 contribution. As I had the opportunity to contact Mr. Johnson recently I asked him if he had seen mention...
...Confidence!" Mention the new Chancellor to any Hohenzollern and the Hohenzollern's face will light up. General von Schleicher and ex-Crown Prince Wilhelm call each other familiarly "thou." They go to each other's high teas and staghunt dinners. But the genius of witty, companionable von Schleicher is to keep on good or at least civil terms with Germans of every party except the Communists. This genius was amazingly shown last week when General von Schleicher barely failed to induce Adolf Hitler to confer with him-the only logical subject of conversation being terms on which...
...outside. Empty rooms have caused the administration considerable loss in the past two years. Estimates indicate that the $60,000 reduction will in large measure be vindicated and alleviated by full Houses. The second proposal, hardly surprising, is that maintenance costs shall be reduced. And finally, though only cursory mention is made of it, "recourse to other available funds" is named as a final resort...
Except in wartime, this is always the King's opening sentence. Last week, since the Cabinet really had nothing more to say, the whole speech was a model of vacuity. It omitted to mention even the issue of the hour, War Debts. But the Cabinet did provide the King with one sympathetic passage which he read with sympathy...
...cerebral anemia" or brain fatigue. Even the cautious Times has discussed the subject guardedly. Recently at Oxford, extremely polite Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, lecturing on "The Machinery of Government," created a sensation by the following remarks which were understood to refer to Scot MacDonald, though Lord Cecil did not mention his name: "Too many [Prime Ministers] have appeared to lose the faculty of decision. That seems to be one of the faculties that wear out soonest. To decide makes a considerable strain on the nervous force and the strain increases with apprehended unpopularity of the decision. Then ensues a search...