Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew Herbert Hoover passingly or better, how might he take advantage of Mr. Hoover's inauguration to acquire publicity for himself? One way might be to take two simple steps, as follows...
...have one hundredth part of the difficulty with the Chamber of Deputies that I once had. We might possibly accomplish some things more easily under another form of government; but I am quite sure that we will be able to accomplish them, without too much difficulty, as a republic, and that we will be glad when it is over, that we remained one through...
...person could be found whose family had been royal but not regnant, he might shrewdly claim that his estates in Czechoslovakia ought not to have been confiscated. He could point triumphantly to a clause in the Treaty which says that, in case of dispute, the French text shall prevail. Such a person is the Archduke Friedrich, onetime Austro-Hungarian Feldmarschall, beloved as "Papa Fried-rich," and now resident in that hotbed of royalists, Budapest. It was "Papa Friedrich's" $125,000,000 estates (long since confiscated by Czechoslovakia) which were being wrangled over at The Hague...
...Sabin of the Guaranty Trust Co. is well known to have advanced some of his privy cash to "Papa Friedrich," years ago, on the sporting security of the Archduke's claim to be non-regnant. The late Frank A. Munsey also took a little flier in what might be called "Papa Friedrich Preferred...
...several thousand dollars. The money was useful, for the Einsteins are, like most scientific families, comparatively poor. Not much income ensues from his professorship at the Academy of Sciences or from his directorship at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Yet the Einsteins, if they were really in need, might look with confidence to their very rich relatives, the Kochs and Dreyfuses of Germany and France. They are related to that Robert Koch (1843-1910) who discovered tuberculin and, after Louis Pasteur (1822-95), founded modern medicine. Alfred Dreyfus (1859-), of France's famed "Dreyfus case," is Dr. Einstein...