Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a high degree of satisfaction that I, with many another Stanfordite, read of Secretary-President Wilbur's work in TIME, Dec. 9. Can one statement in particular, ". . . bring to his job an attitude of mind different from the general run of office holders," be considered as TIME'S apology for calling Secretary Wilbur President Hoover's "prime 'yes' man" (TIME, March...
Vengeance for bolting the Democratic Party in the last presidential election fell on Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama last week when the State Democratic Executive Committee read him out of the party (27-21). The 120,000 rank-and-file Alabama Democrats who voted for Hoover were not drummed out of camp, only warned that a vote in the primaries would be a promise of party regularity. Leader Heflin paid the penalty to which leadership is liable...
...that instant Col. Sam Park, famed socialite U. S. Vice Consul at Biarritz, was being shaved by the ship's barber. Only the barber's steady hand saved him from instant decapitation. As it was, his consular lip was badly gashed. When the storm subsided, the reported sea toll read : 16 ships sunk, 32 beached, 8 abandoned...
...Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments. Discussing that bugaboo of Anglo-U. S. naval agreement, the question of Freedom of the Seas and rights of neutrals in wartime, the paper read...
...false beards and going out on the vice-hunt, with their Index Expurgatorius in one hand and sufficient funds in the other to provide them with the latest and freshest in potentially risque literature. The two-kinds-of-falsehood idea should furnish an analogy for a two-purposes-in-reading theory, by which what must be kept with holy zeal from the unconcenrated eyes of ordinary mortals can be read with propriety, and of course without danger to their purity of soul, by these unofficial collagues of Boston's Finest...