Word: mixing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a prima donna had carolled the National Anthem, John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, gave the "Caseys" the freedom of the City in one of his famed welcome-speeches. Said he: "If any of you get in any mix-up with the 'cops' while you are here, just give them the high sign; if that does not work, call me up at City Hall. . . . One of your faith has been permitted to direct this city. . . . The work of this Order is well known. . . . Its championship* of American principles and ideals...
...would place Congress in control of every home in the land between parent and child. State Representative McCorsey said much the same thing in more vigorous idiom: "I don't want any more monkeying with the buzz-saw by that bunch in Washington. We don't mix nohow. We weren't born under the same régime and don't drink out of the same bottle. We don't want them interfering with our affairs...
...Majestic (White Star) ? Ogden M. Reid, proprietor of The New York Herald-Tribune; John D. Ryan, Chairman of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co.; Mrs. Tom Mix, wife of the cinema actor; John Murray Anderson and James Reynolds, producer and designer of The Greenwich Village Follies...
There is an old saying to the effect that oil and water will not mix-neither will Monarchists and Communists. That fact was amply brought out in the Reichstag on its opening day. The first scene was one of simple, solemn sensation: General Erich von Ludendorff held court, his admirers standing stiffly at attention before him. He drank a glass of beer, shook hands formally with each Monarchy man who was presented to him. Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz tripped timorously into the Reichstag. Photographers tried to "snap" him as he went, but in his well-known genial manner...
...Germans would certainly prefer a better arbiter-but there is none. "America is the only power which can lend backbone to the British policy, which inclines just now toward giving Germany a breathing spell. This English policy succeeded in winning America, against her often declared intention not to mix in European politics, to permit General Dawes to preside at the conference of experts responsible for the Dawes report, and, what is even more important than the attitude of the American Government, American public opinion considers the Dawes report an American political effort toward remedying European chaos. "That is enormously significant...