Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent an answer to Wyoming, in a certain way. He told his secretary what to say, and let the secretary sign the letter. This procedure, after "I do not choose" (August) and "My wishes will be respected" (December), seemed intended to show that the Everlasting Nay had now become a matter of office routine. Secretary Sanders wrote: "The President directs me to say that he must decline to grant the request of the committee...
Concessions. The three most significant concessions thus far granted to foreign interests in Soviet Russia are, say Miss Thompson & Mr. Lee, 1) The Mologoles concessions granted to a German syndicate of which onetime German Chancellor Wirth was the head; 2) The Caucasian manganese concessions let to W. A. Harriman and associates of Manhattan; and 3) the Lena Goldfields concession, granted to Britons. Generally speaking, Mr. Lee appears to mistrust the good faith of the Soviet Government in connection with the recently defunct Mologoles concessions and the Harriman scheme which is now going forward under a completely revised contract "far more...
...Havilland took his Moth up over London, stalled his engine at a height of 200 feet, and deliberately crashed to the ground of Staglane Airdrome. The little plane crashed, crumbled; the experts gasped. But from the mess stepped Capt. De Havilland, smiling and nodding his head as if to say: "So you see, gentlemen, these Handley-Page automatic slots of which I have been telling you really do make an airplane fool-proof." The slots, attached to the wing tips, automatically open in case of accident, not unlike a parachute, and let an unhappy pilot down easy...
...winsome Mr. Marston, the cast of this play includes the Margaret Lawrence who has long been absent from Broadway, and the less famed but more beautiful and perhaps equally capable Isobel Elsom. Its production is lavish in all details. Yet, probably because characters in it are permitted to say, when on the point of departure, "Is it ... for good?" or to remark, brightly, about sugar, "A lump a "day keeps the levers away," The Behavior of Mrs. Crane is not really so very entertaining...
...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...