Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British or American naval power and we are willing to accept with good grace that there should be two naval powers which share hegemony ... on a basis of parity. But what interests us is that we should not have to pay the costs of the combination. That is to say that we should not have to pay for it with the loss of our independence...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
What Lord Birkenhead will discuss with Mr, Clarke he did not say, though a prospective $50,000,000 expansion campaign for his English company might well furnish an interesting topic of conversation. To U. S. newsmen, however, Lord Birkenhead spoke chiefly generalities. Said...
...Specifically I may say that the chiefs of the Canadian railways have agreed to place orders for British coal in larger amounts than they have in the past...
William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, cineman, lunched Winston Spencer Churchill in Los Angeles. Announced Mr. Hearst: "I don't know exactly what to say. I came down from the ranch last night with Mr. Churchill, and we were six hours in the automobile, and I told him everything that I know anything about and a lot of things that I don't know anything about. I am sure he enjoyed the conversation, because he fell into the most peaceful and profound slumbers, and remained there...