Word: postscripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doorway. He had sent the alarm to the gate by the only telephone the conspirators had overlooked when they were cutting wires. Now at the gate Captain Stephen McGrath, State trooper, held Sullivan's ultimatum between his fists, wondering how he could take the responsibility of ignoring that scrawled postscript signed with Warden Jennings' name...
...Briand added an amazing postscript, rumors of which gave rise to the suspicion that Britain and France had concluded a formal entente. Briand's postscript : "Whatever the result, even should our hopes prove illusory, the two Governments would none the less be under the urgent obligation to act in concert either to ensure success by other means or to adopt a common policy so as to deal with the difficulties which would inevitably arise...
...South for ten years. It is still such a hot question that Editor Edward John Meeman of the Knoxville News-Sentinel thought Nominee Hoover's government-in-business passage did not tell the South enough. He asked the Nominee point-blank what it meant. Then came the first Hoover postscript: "You may say that means Muscle Shoals...
...chain-papers. All the young Scripps-Howard editors are supporting Nominee Hoover this year.? All the young Scripps-Howard editors are also supporting the government-ownership-and-operation side of the Water Power question. Editor Meeman of the News-Sentinel was apparently satisfied that Nominee Hoover's first postscript implied govern ment ownership and operation for Muscle Shoals...
...other newsmen were not so satisfied and at a press conference back in Washington, Nominee Hoover found it necessary to make his second postscript. This time he said: "There is no question of government ownership about Muscle Shoals, as the government already owns both the power and the nitrate plants. The major purposes which were advanced for its construction were navigation, scientific research and national defense. The Republican Administration has recommended that it be dedicated to agriculture for research purposes and development of fertilizers in addition to its national defense reserve. After these purposes are satisfied, there...