Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, retired, who was President Coolidge's spokesman at the Geneva conference, gives what is probably the most honest and accurate expression of the mixed motives behind the present "Big Navy" talk. Testifying last fortnight before the House Committee, he said: "I am frank to say I hope that disarmament progress will make it possible to cut off part of the building program in 1931. . . . If in 1931 we go into that conference* with an authorized program of the strength we are entitled to, I hope we will find a basis of agreement with other nations...
...form of Property. When labor organizers disrupt the relations between workers and employers, are they not destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...
...possible to present such a story pictorially without loss of its beauty and danger of controversy when the lapse of years has made it history, but for himself Sir Austen feels it is more beautiful in memory than any picture could make it. He must frankly say that he feels the strongest repugnance to its cinema production...
...give clarity a significance beyond the decorative. In the way a purple petunia spread its violent petals, there was a hint, a symbol for truths not necessarily too deep for words to reach but outside the meanings from which words have been derived. It is enough to say that Miss O'Keeffe's paintings are as full of passion as the verses of Solomon's Song...
Rene Lacoste (world's tennis champion) stood by while the Davis Cup drawings for 1928 were being made in Paris, heard President Gaston Doumergue of France say: "I am going to nominate you Ambassador to Washington [the U. S.]. You are the only man we have to counterbalance Lindbergh...