Word: pressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have told them over and over that since France and Italy owe them and they owe us, the only result of "canceling debts all round" would be to leave the United States standing the whole loss. They can never see it that way! Their Government and their Peer-subsidized press has got them as hypnotized on that point as a basketful of baby rabbits under the eye of an Indian snake charmer. Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe- which is what they always pretend that they are doing. SITWELL R. PACKARD...
...good President must have a good Press.-U. S. POLITICAL PROVERBS. A fortnight ago, guests at the White House were Mr. and Mrs. Adolph S. Ochs of Manhattan. While Mrs. Hoover motored Mrs. Ochs around Washington and entertained her (TIME, April 15), President Hoover devoted spare moments to Mr. Ochs, who publishes the august, fatherly (and almost always Democratic) New York Times. President Hoover asked Publisher Ochs this and that about U. S. journalism. After the Ochses had gone, President Hoover wrote a speech. Last week President Hoover went to Manhattan, taking his speech with him, the first extra-routine...
...following article is taken from "The Story of Fay House" by Mrs. George Plerce Baker, which is to be published on May 7 by the Harvard University Press. The description of the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Harvard's founding is quoted, in Mrs. Baker's book, from "The Poetry of Travelling in the United States," by Caroline Gilman, published in New York...
...result of more than a year's work undertaken at the direction of Matthew Luce '91. Regent of the University, the sixth edition of the "Official Guide to Harvard University," edited by R. S. Mitchell '15, will be published by the Harvard University Press on Tuesday. Mitchell was until recently an Instructor in History and Tutor in the Department of History, Government, and Economics; but he now holds the position of editor in the Massachusetts Historical Society...
...situation surrounding the raising of the German discount rate that is of primary interest to the world. It is the fact that gold should be drained so readily at the loss of confidence. And it is of as great consequence that the Allied press should seize upon these facts as proof of German bad faith...