Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Work was a hardworking nerve specialist and politician in Colorado until 1921, when President Harding named him First Assistant Postmaster General. When Will Hays, his chief, retired in 1922 to the quiet cloisters of the movie industry, Dr. Work stepped into the vacant Cabinet post, and a year later when Albert Bacon Fall left the shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges...
...Cummins has probably pursued the wisest course. He has conducted a quiet "personal" campaign, without rushing out to his constituents with wild alarms. His supporters have told Iowa that it must choose "Cummins or Communism." But on the whole they have not done much speechmaking. On the main issue, farm relief, the Senator made a speech last week in the Senate declaring...
Senator Willis: "How fortunate it was for the country that at its head was to be found this quiet, industrious, painstaking, courageous leader...
Later, Jane Addams again took the rostrum, greying, spare and benign in her 66th year. Her penetrating low voice filled the hall with quiet reminiscence. She made no comment on a remark by President Vaile to the effect that the day of organization has succeeded the day of leadership in social work-the day of Jane Addams, Mary Richmond,* Owen R. Lovejoy**?but did say: "It is curious to notice the difference in world opinion 50 years ago and now. When I first went to Europe people everywhere were interested in the United States. They thought of America...
...played that day, they said that Sweetser was a champion and that Simpson was a good golfer. There was really nothing more to be said. If Mr. S. F. Simpson of Glasgow joined your foursome next Sunday, you would admire his game. You would remember him as an exceptionally quiet man who teed his ball very high, who fell back on his heels after driving, and who was a deadly putter. His approach shots might be a little worse than yours if you were playing' well. Still, Mr. Simpson would probably have the best ball all the way around unless...