Word: pan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pathetic. His vehicle (by the hitherto unheard-of Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work...
...Honorary degrees have been conferred upon him by St. Andrew's University, Scotland, Johns Hopkins, and, in 1917, by Harvard. In 1905 Mr. White was appointed ambassador to Italy, and two years later ambassador to France. In 1910 he became chairman of the American delegation to the fourth Pan-American Conference at Buenos Aires, and the same year, special ambassador to Chile for the celebration of the centenary of Chilean independence. Finally, as a member of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, Mr. White accompanied President Wilson to Paris...
...cried he, "to shut and padlock the front door and leave the back door open?" The Senate, 60 to 12, refused to recognize the force of his interjection. Said Pennsylvanian Reed: "This is absolutely unnecessary.* This is unwise if we are to pay any atten- tion to the Pan-American idea." And Senator Fess (from Ohio, like Mr. Willis) cautioned: "It will disturb our relations."; New Mexican Bursum added : "We had $200,000,000 trade with Mexico last year. We may have $1,000,000,000 soon." A last vain attempt to close the border was made by West Virginian...
...America, the fairy tale industry lacks material with which to work, although George Washington and his clever retort with reference to falsehoods furnishes a not unsuitable starting point. The folk-lore of parent countries has not as yet been acclimated. But Professor William Lyon Phelps reputed reaction to "Peter Pan" (See Donald Ogden Stewart) illustrates plainly the appeal which these fables retain even for such highly intelligent subjects, Their magnetic, vitalizing influence on the masses cannot be overestimated...
...Angeles, the special counsel for the Government obtained a temporary injunction on the Doheny companies to prevent them from operating their leases. The charges made were much the same as those of the Teapot Dome complaint. Rear Admiral Harry H. Rousseau and J. Crampton Anderson, President of the Pan-American Petroleum Co., were named joint receivers. In order to protect the Government's naval and oil interests as well as the interests of the lessee, the receivers were empowered to carry out the existing contracts, and to drill additional wells, if necessary to protect the Government...