Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Green Goes. It was an undemonstrative, quiet little man whom the House stood up and cheered one day last week. His small, tired face bore the wrinkles of 17 years on a judge's bench in Iowa and 17 more years at a Representative's desk in Washington. In the present Congress and the two preceding it he had sat as chairman when the Ways & Means Committee was pondering long, statistical revenue bills. He was William Raymond Green, lord high custodian of the prime principle for which-the Fathers fought-taxation with representation...
They were the U. S. Senators appointed to investigate strike conditions in bituminous Pennsylvania under the Johnson resolution (TIME, Feb. 27)-Idaho's English-born Gooding, Montana's long-nosed Wheeler, chunky Wagner of New York (born in Germany) and Oklahoma's quiet little Pine. Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island was supposed to have been with them but he fell...
...Senators asked about bootlegging and harlots. They smelled at drinking water and tried not to smell other moistures. They quizzed miners, both striking and strikebreaking, about wages and the cost of living, warning vigilant mine officials to keep quiet during the questioning...
...There is in the New York City Hall a quiet, efficient President of the Board of Alderman, Joseph V. McKee, 38, who patronizes a conservative tailor and does much that Mayor Walker leaves undone. He is at his desk before 10 a.m., whereas Mayor Walker seldom appears before noon, if at all. Mr. McKee likes law reports and biographies. *Mayor O'Keefe confessed that he had never seen anyone get so hilarious on ginger ale as did Mayor Walker...
...peace have streamed by, bringing new problems and new crises, the world has come to forget many of the names that blazed before it a decade ago, Wilson is dead. Lloyd George is following the faint glow of his political star, that once shone like a sun; Clemenceau, in quiet oblivion, is writing his memoirs; the magic name of Hindenburg alone has been strong enough to call a wartime hero from retirement back into the world. But a few weeks ago Earl Haig, who had once fought the old Prussian general died; and Wednesday another of those whose courage stood...