Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deft nurse, an adoring confidante, a ?staunch political helpmate is Mrs. Philip Snowden. From the first she told correspondents at The Hague that her husband would get his way. When they doubted she said simply, "I guess you just don't know how strong and stubborn a Yorkshireman...
...pledged by Chicago's Julius Rosenwald, and a fifth by Manhattan's Nathan Straus. Before the week was out, Mr. Straus had doubled his $25,000 pledge and lesser contributions from world Jewry poured in at such a rate that officials of the Palestine Emergency Fund said that they would be able to forward a quarter-million dollars weekly to the Holy Land "as long as the need for immediate relief exists...
...Madison Square Garden and roared approval of a tactful telegram read on behalf of President Herbert Hoover (see p. 11). Slouching forward to keynote from the platform came famed Friend-of-Oppressed-Peoples William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. Said...
...paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki tribesmen were said to be making their way secretly to Palestine...
...will be accomplished. . . . Moreover M. Stalin has behind him young Russia, that never knew Tsarist slavery and is free from the faults and vices of servile psychology. He and they have a daring which Danton declared was a guide to victory and a faith which one greater than Danton said could move mountains...