Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cutaway, Citizen Coolidge rose from an armchair placed behind a table, shook out his trouser legs, laid down his cigar holder, smiled. Then, without promptings or interruptions, he proceeded to interview himself for minutes while newsmen blinked their astonishment at his garrulity. Regardless of its other merits, what he said was worth $2,000 at the prices for which he now writes about himself. He began...
Chosen as F. N. G. C. organizer was William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, the man who led the "Equalization Fee March" around the Republican National Convention hall last year in Kansas City. Ever an enthusiast, Organizer Settle said last week in Chicago: "This is the greatest day in the history of agriculture since I can remember. . . . This is what we have been dreaming for years?united action? and it's the first time it has been realized. . . . President Hoover is sincerely trying to carry out the pledge he made...
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, left his cigarets and matches at a Londonderry colliery pit mouth, put on overalls, descended torch in hand to the lowest coal seam. Said he to the miners: "I was born a monarch not because I chose to be but because it had to be. It is as necessary for me to work as it is for any other man. Your Prince of Wales and I are workers...
...Robertson Forgan, "Dean of Chicago Bankers" (Vice Chairman of National Bank of the Republic) last week addressed the Rotary Club of St. Andrews, Scotland, where he was born 67 years ago. In accents from which 40 years in the Midwest have not yet rasped the St. Andrews burr,* he said: "If England went to war tomorrow, she could borrow as much money as she wanted. France could not raise a dollar...
...since-merged National City Bank of Chicago, Scot Forgan was approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...