Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bemoaned the passing of the oldline lobbyist who "really knew the tariff." He suggested the formation of a special school in which younger men could be taught the art of tariff lobbying. Praise from the master-lobbyist: "If there were a hundred brilliant young men like Mr. Eyanson [see below] in Washington, the country would be better...
...witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked Judge Hitz to the jury: "You have nothing whatever to do with the sunshine of New Mexico...
...TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing his perennial search for a champagne in which the bubbles go down instead of up, and ever so politely inquiring...
Modest, middle-aged James Henry Scullin, the new Laborite Prime Minister of Australia, moved out last week from his home in Melbourne to Canberra, the Kangaroo Continent's flat and dusty capital. Scorning what he termed "unnecessary expenditure," Mr. Scullin refused to occupy the official Prime Minister's residence, just vacated by his reactionary Nationalist predecessor Stanley Melbourne
...Because Max Epstein of Chicago, besides being philanthropist and financier (tank cars, directorships), is an outstanding connoisseur and collector of paintings. Many a Harvard law student is aided by the Max Epstein Loan Fund. The University of Chicago has a Max Epstein Dispensary and Social Hall. Lately Mr. Epstein combined his hobby and his philanthropy. Last fortnight the University of Chicago announced receipt from him of $1,000,000 for an art center where esthetic history and theory will be studied and taught, pundits will lecture, exhibitions will be held. The building will stand near the University's resplendent...