Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long Island to Atlantic City. Down they bore on hotels, road houses, garages, a Manhattan office building, a New Jersey mansion. Captured were 32 prisoners, hundreds of cases of good liquor. In mid-Manhattan a detachment entered a businesslike office where directors of a colossal liquor syndicate, said to have a monopoly of the metropolitan supply, were known to meet, plan operations, declare fabulous dividends. Records the raiders found, but no directors. "BIGGEST DRY RAID" blared press headlines the next morning. A picked detachment of raiders invaded the field headquarters of the syndicate, an isolated 20-room mansion high...
Monkey Business marked the finale. When Judge Barnhill turned to learned counsel and said, "Gentlemen, the jury is with you," twelve hours of legal oratory exploded, reverberated, droned...
...Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York...
...Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility...
...Said he: "Our arrangements, if completed, should give profitable employment to tens of thousands of Britons." Viscount D'Abernon's "arrangements" were: 1) an agreement with Argentina by which that country is to buy $38,880,000 worth of manufactured goods from Great Britain over a period of two years, and reciprocally Britain is to take an equal amount in raw material from Argentina; 2) an Anglo-Argentine floating credit of $77,760,000; 3) a British loan of $200,000,000 to the Argentine government for road building...