Word: pur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some of the debt settlements we have negotiated have been criticized because it is claimed that pur failure to collect the last cent imposes an avoidable burden upon our taxpayers. I pass over the practical fact that we have, I believe, made for the United States the most favorable settlements which could be obtained short of force. The original criticism is without perspective and does not take conditions in their true relative importance...
TIME Washington, D. C. The News-Magazine Oct. 17, 1925 Sirs: Please do not think me critical of TIME, but having come from California all the way across this continent for the sole pur pose of standing for a few brief moments before those nine robed and worthy succes sors of John Marshall, and having months ago perused with interest your articles concerning Mr. Justice McKenna's retirement and the elevation of Mr. Justice Stone to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have just read with an amazement not unmingled with sorrow the advertisement...
...been easy, in the blue evening, to misgage the acoustics of the gargantuan Bowl. But Sir Henry, wiser than his critics, made his effects as precisely as if he had been in a concert hall; brilliantly he conducted a rare Andante of Mozart's, an unfamiliar suite by Pur- cell, the first Los Angeles performance of three movements from The Planets by Gustav Hoist. Sir Henry had been encouraged to give some modern English music; he chose Ethel Smyth's On the Cliffs of Cornwall, a scene from The Immortal Hour of Rutland Boughton...
...concur in the judgment and intend, at the coming meeting of the House of Bishops, to vote for my expulsion from the Christian ministry. But such considerations, it seems to me, are quite irrelevant. Religion, we are both agreed, is deeper than intellectual belief, and the known divergence in pur points of view, in case you were to invite me to speak in the cathedral, would emphasize the truth...
...move ? law practice in Lincoln, Neb. ? presidency Lacrosse Gas Light & Coke Co. ? presidency Northwestern Gas Light & Coke Co. ? appointment (at 29) as Comptroller of the Currency under McKinley ? founding of the Central Trust Co. (Chicago) ? commission as Major in the engineers (1917) ? Pur chasing Agent for the A. E. F.* ? the Congressional War investigations (in which he made his famous "Helen Maria" remarks) ? advocacy of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations ? Director of the Budget ? "Dawes' report" on reparations...