Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outlanders the whole question of precedence and social rank in Washington seems silly. But as a British diplomat once said (with Irish logic): "Since the good God made us so that we all cannot get through the same door at once, there must be precedence...
...Vice President stated that the question of the seating of his hostess, Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, at official dinners is not settled. He has notified the Secretary of State, Mr. Stimson, of his dissatisfaction "with the action of the former Secretary, Mr. Kellogg, and has asked for a reversal of it. . . . The Vice President feels that he is not bound by Mr. Kellogg's conclusion and has protested to Mr. Stimson...
...asked the Vice President and the Ganns to dinner at the White House and escorted Mrs. Gann into the state dining room himself, with Mr. Gann bringing up the rear. But this meant nothing because present were no foreign diplomats' wives to point the issue of precedence. The question of a seat for Mrs. Gann-and Mr. Gann-was all-balled-up. Washington society buzzed like a happy beehive...
...good humor -they must be very well off.' If we are serious and thoughtful, then people say it is all hypocrisy. They want to make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time...
...National City's trust business (as far as possible) to Farmers' Trust. President J. H. Perkins of Farmers' Trust will be president of the new City Bank-Farmers' Trust Co. In announcing the Farmers' Loan acquisition, Banker Mitchell was emphatic in stating that the question of being "biggest bank," did not enter into consideration...