Word: primed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chairman of the whole; Franklin Delano Roosevelt as chairman of a committee on legal education; F. Trubee Davison as executive committeeman -last week published a report by Mr. Lowden's committee. Written by Commissioner Louis Newton Robinson, experienced professor of economics and criminology, this report set forth, as prime cause of crime's prevalence in the U. S., "the lack of average intelligence in the police force, particularly in the supervisory branches...
...unfortunate police force of Cleveland, Ohio, was singled out as a prime example. An Army Intelligence test given in Cleveland had revealed...
British interest was especially roused at the dismissal of Assistant Under Secretary Gregory because he is remembered in connection with the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" which hastened the fall of James Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Cabinet (TIME, Nov. 17, 1924). Secretary Gregory, without informing Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary MacDonald, despatched a protest against the Zinoviev letter to Moscow. When news of this move reached the British public it was accepted as proof of the genuineness of the Zinoviev letter (now generally considered a forgery) and materially helped to sway the country away from Laborite MacDonald...
Patriotism is one of the prime factors in the making of a one hundred per cent American citizen. This is forcibly brought to mind by a shocking oversight among the authorities. Good citizenship and loyalty are inextricably woven into one another, forming that solid and enduring core in every American's heart that makes him spontaneously whip off his hat when Old Glory comes marching down the street fluttering its red and white stripes to the bounding breeze. What a thrill the sight of Our Flag sends coursing through the red blood of every true citizen. "Hats off! The flag...
...found Janet's reception rather a dowdy party; the room was very fine with its white walls, shining background to the family pictures, ". . . but nobody was very smartly dressed. Very few young people. No naked people at all. A great many old men with ribbons and orders. The Prime Minister, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Of course there would be lots of clergy...