Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, with scarcely a mention of any other candidate, they notified the Pacific Coast, the Rocky Mountains and the U. S. in general that they, the 40 willing workers of the west, hailed Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York as their man and would work for him from that moment...
...anecdote, but more often it is the recognition of an intrinsic merit of personal method, which ranks the first trans-atlantic passage on a popular par with the first successful attempt to stand an egg on end. And so it may be that unborn generations of Harvard Presidents will mention in the same breath the development of the tutorial system with the creation of a standard and unmistakable set of Harvard crockery. Both will be remembered as unique differing not so much in kind as in degree...
...even a national convention of U. S. postmasters and postal supervisors last week at Niagara Falls, N. Y., made much popular impression. Newspapers that will lavish column after column upon Moose. Shriner, Grotto, Lion, Rotary, Yahoo, Wahoo and Hoohoo conventions, gave their old friends the postmasters scarcely a mention. Even the presence in Buffalo and the speech of Postmaster General Harry S. New were virtually ignored by local newspapers...
...there are Italian, Chinese, Jewish quarters where no English is understood. Even his interpreter smiled when he remarked: "That is why I've been elected so many times." When congratulated upon this and other sallies, the Mayor made a gesture of dismay, exclaiming: "My goodness, I forgot to mention Columbus. Just imagine an American speaking to Italians and forgetting Colum-bus." ¶After three days of lolling in bed or on the Lido beach, Mayor Walker emerged from his hotel to take the train for Rome. Said he: "I now feel like $1,000,000." ¶In Rome...
...object of the presidential address on such occasions is to give an account of the Executive for the year. President Calles, reviewing his administration, noted that the third year of his office had not lacked grave difficulties. Touching on the resignations of several ministers, he went on to mention the enforcement of the religious laws, saying that the result has been to how that the "Mexican people are indifferent to the suppression of the cults" and roundly charging the Roman Catholic clergy with rebellious conduct. He noted, too, that several foreigners, among them two "North Americans" (meaning U. S. citizens...