Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides his conduct and "pact of friendship," Guest Dawes gave the members of the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland "a few practical suggestions to ponder." "The ideal of your association" he explained, "is to bring people together in mutual friendship and mutual understanding. The methods of an organization like this should be adjusted not to human reasoning, but to human nature.* I have an invitation from the Mayor of Sudbury to go down there to receive the freedom of the town. Sudbury is where my people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something...
...Untin' Bowler last week. They landed at Great Whale on Hudson Bay, were held there two days because of bad weather. Next stop was to be Port Burwell, Cape Chidley, Labrador. The silence that ensued left followers of the flight more serious things to ponder than the origin of the name 'Untin' Bowler...
Politicians, reading the Organization's first manifesto, paused to ponder these words: "We deplore the evident hypocrisy of many of those who hold or seek public office. Too often it is cynically assumed that so far as the Volstead law is concerned a man's acts need not conform with his votes. We believe in exposing such hypocrisy, because such men are unfit for any public trust...
Going back to his office, Mr. Mellon had still to ponder the problem of who should be appointed as the new chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The incumbent, David H. Blair, had resigned. Among candidates for the vacancy were Charles R. Nash of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon's State; E. C. Alvord, Mr. Mellon's legislative adviser; Chairman Benjamin...
...Schacht also demanded political concessions, including the immediate evacuation of the Rhineland and the early return of the Saar Valley. This proposal was greeted with stony silence. Dr. Schacht retired once more to ponder...