Word: mentionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of this article you made mention of the President's intention of turning the Key into a National Monument. You did not, however, state that Dry Tortugas is one of the closed ports of the U. S. and therefor closed to all commercial or pleasure craft...
...spring of 1933, said he, an option on 90,000 of the 175,000 voting shares of New York Shipbuilding had been secured by Bernard ("Ben") C. Smith and Thomas E. Bragg. At the mention ot those two famed speculators, the Senators sat up and took notice-wondering audibly whether the rise in that stock from $3.25 to $22 in five months' time had anything to do with those weird gentlemen's operations. The tale went on: Speculators Bragg & Smith came to Mr. Manning to ask whether Mr. Cord would take a half interest in the majority stock...
Last week President Roosevelt's NIRB committee, headed by Economic Adviser Leon Henderson, made public its report on conditions in the automobile industry. It did not mention Fisher Body's 18 giant presses but had many another marvel of technological advance to reveal. Ex- amples...
...James Whitcomb Riley and Uncle Joe Cannon. You hear them curse the speed of the modern generation; you hear them chastise the youth for no longer reading Dickens; you hear them boasting about their remarkable powers of endurance even at the age of 81 and 79 and 73. They mention philosophers, and one of them recalls the day when "the name Spinoza didn't mean any more to me than a mouthwash." At this you laugh out loud; they stare at you sternly, and you hastily depart. You realize, as you leave, that Rome DID fall...
...none but the meticulous Times and the loudly liberal Post printed Mr. Broun's comments about publishers and the President. Taking to the radio to point out this fact, President Broun delivered an equally one-sided report on the Jennings case, in which he failed to make any mention of the code requirements on which the publishers were making their stand...