Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to correct what seemed to me the wrong impression conveyed by your footnote on Senator Smoot, p. 12 (TIME, April 8). As a student of government, I have no special bias in favor of any party, nor am I any particular defender of Senator Smoot. I was, however, present at this meeting during the mayoralty campaign of 1927, at what was then the Metropolitan Opera House. This Republican mass meeting occurred near the close of a campaign notable chiefly for its utter lack of observance of the ordinary decencies of a campaign. Candidates were referred to as four-flushers...
...which shrewd men in trade could profit. Such leaks, he cried, were "unfair . . . unjust . . . not right . . . wrong . . . indefensible!" Republicans calmly retorted that, if leaks there had been about the new tariff bill, they were "unintentional." Certain tariff facts loomed large in ad vance of the bill's presentation: Sugar. The prospect of a higher sugar duty brought to Washington agitated representatives of the Cuban producers. The proposal to limit the free entry of Philippine sugar to 500,000 tons per year accounted for the presence in Washington of Speaker Manuel Roxas of the Philippine House, President Pro Tempore Sergio...
...Power Co., vigorous participant in New England's "White Gold Rush" (TIME, April 22). ¶ Editor-in-chief George B. Parker (Scripps-Howard chainpapers) denounced the alleged policy of the power interests in omitting their names from publicity sent out to the press. Let the power men present their side in rate controversies, he went on, under the names of their officials, not under the names of paid press agents. ¶ Reading of Editor Abbot's suggestion, Archibald Robertson Graustein, President of the International Paper Co.-I. P. C. -telegraphed the Society that his company would be glad...
Chairman Loudon of the Commission introduced still another plan by reading a letter signed "Clifford Harmon, President of the International League of Aviators." Mr. Harmon was present to hear his letter read. He flushed very red when Baron Cushendun observed at the close of the reading: "I know nothing about the gentleman who wrote the letter, but everybody knows there are organizations with high sounding titles which, it is possible, consist of an office on the fifth floor and a letterhead. I think the letter itself of no value, but even if it were valuable I believe it very improper...
Almost every Paris newspaper except those owned by Perfumer-Publisher Coty has been urging for months that a one-for-three quota be imposed, instead of the present one-for-seven arrangement which U. S. Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays secured on his famed visit to Paris (TIME, May 14), but which expires next September...