Word: primes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Later in the week the President, like millions of other U. S. stay-at-homes, fiddled with radio dials, inclined his ear to a loudspeaker. Not a word did he miss. He was listening to the now familiar voice of Prime Minister MacDonald speaking before stiff-shirted notables and receptive microphones at a dinner in Manhattan. Told that there was a telephone call from an intimate friend, the President said: "Tell him I'm too busy...
President Hoover vexed the convention of the American Dental Association at Washington last week by only greeting a few of them (see p. 13).* Also they were cross because they did not get the newspaper publicity which conventioneers expect. Partly that was not their fault. Prime Minister MacDonald's visit to Washington and two sensational stranglings filled Washington papers and clogged national press services. But the dentists themselves were also to blame. Enterprising organizations do not wait for reporters to attend their meetings. Good publicity committees send information, well prepared, to the newspapers. The dentists did not have...
...Novelist Hudson died, London bird-lovers dedicated to his memory a bird-sanctuary decorated by Sculptor Jacob Epstein, situated in Hyde Park. Sculptor Epstein's panel represented Rima, arms outstretched, succoring two birds of prey. But to the consternation of the bird-lovers and the embarrassment of then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who unveiled the statue (TIME, June 1, 1925), Epstein's Rima was not the melodious and polychromatic creature of Novelist Hudson's fancy, but a new, strange, bovine character. Her archaic, flat-footed figure, her tremendous and sagging muscles, her heavy Buddhistic countenance roused...
Doffing his hat to George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon, the Prime Minister asked if Superintendent Colonel Dodge remembered the "frightful heat and thunderstorm" on the occasion of the Prime Minister's last visit, when he was only "Mr." (TIME, April 18, 1927, et seq.) Colonel Dodge looked perplexed...
Stimson's Stag. Spacious Woodley, home of Secretary of State Stimson, was the last place where Prime Minister clasped hands with President. Two hours previously they had formally farewelled at the White House, but Mr. Hoover slipped over to his Secretary's stag dinner. No socialites were present as such. Most of the stags were potent Congressmen and Senators of both parties, including Senatorial floor leaders Robinson (Dem.) and Watson (Rep.). Sound meat for conversation was a joint declaration issued earlier in the day by Stags Hoover and MacDonald, momentously summing the results of their conversations...