Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busy Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes of Colon last week called on the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal Council and the Rotary Club for one volunteer each. He wanted, he said, to form a "Committee of Three" to decide which of the young women employed in Colon cabarets are "artists," which, merely "female entertainers." Volunteers were not lacking...
Soon ingenious Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes had assembled his "Committee of Three," was imparting precise definitions, minute instructions. Said...
Humiliation. Said Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz, flying wife of Tiffany & Co.'s vice president: "It is humiliating to admit that at present there seems to be no American girl who can successfully compete with certain distinguished foreign women in flying." In her thought were Lady Mary Bailey, 39, who has shuttled alone between London and Cape Town and Mary du Cauroy, Duchess of Bedford, 63, who last fortnight flew from England to India and back in seven and one-half days...
...appointed spokesman of a great project and in the bearded assemblage he saw many a gleaming, antagonistic eye. The project (in motion for six years) was the foundation of an All-Jewish Union, embracing both Zionists and non-Zionists, for the upbuilding of Palestine. "A Jewish national home, . . ." said Dr. Weizmann, "is no longer the concern of Zionists alone. It must of necessity become a centre which attracts the energies of Jews everywhere...
Speaking to the summer faculty and students of Columbia University he was, as usual, prevailingly optimistic. Said he: ''There will be more revolutionary changes in our forms of ecclesiastical organization than we now can easily imagine. . . . Religion itself will always rise unconquered . . . for the complicated life forced on us by our mechanized civilization only emphasizes the difficulty and evokes the need of spiritual superiority in the individual...