Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked as though the breakdown was at hand," he said. "The French had ordered a special train to take them back to Paris, Briand made an impassioned plea to me to put the interests of Europe before a paltry financial consideration. I agreed. 'But you ask us/ I said, 'to accept half our just claim. We cannot do that.' The conference seemed...
...wrote our refusal and the heads of what we must have on a half sheet of note paper. We waited half an hour. Later he returned. He had advanced the offer 100,000 pounds a quarter of an hour back. Now he came with 50,000 more. He said that it was all he could...
...said, 'Be not weary of well doing.' He was in despair: 'We have all emptied our pockets,' he fretted. 'Go through your pockets again,' I said very kindly, 'and I am sure you can find enough to cover what remains between...
...told me you had a very kind heart,' said poor Jaspar, 'but we have never met a man like...
...Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade. Said...