Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Ashurst interjected: "The press ought to say that it saw a Senator who was both windy and foggy at the same time...
...while these laws took body. Last week he wrote: "We have been so absorbed here [in Congress] that I have not considered it desirable to pause long enough to disturb a queer dream about the paternity of the Federal Reserve act." Less patient "fathers," at dinner tables, might justly say: "In 1913, we who were keen to the inflexibility of the old National banking laws, succeeded in putting through the Congress the Federal Reserve Bank law. . . ." Alexander Hamilton created a national bank for the new U. S. None the less there were major business crises...
...bond overnight if he were so inclined. Then, too, lieutenants, ambitious, quick-firing, are ready to step into departed chieftain's shoes, ready to prolong the same feuds with the same weapons. Meanwhile Leader Birger, answering no doorbells, dodging no dynamite, plays pinochle, smiles blandly, has nothing to say...
...They say Europe is effete. They say nothing can move sophisticated Europe. . . . Last week in the Salle Gaveau (Paris concert hall) a fair-haired little boy in a blue sailor suit put his violin under his chin and played Mozart. When he had finished he smiled simply at the big audience-smiled, and soon went on playing. He did not seem to notice that women were weeping, that men were looking at their waistcoat buttons. .After his last number, he could not help noticing that hats were flying up in the air, that the room was ringing with deafening cheers...
...resigned. The Rev. Mr. Nixon assigned as cause Dr. Abbott's disapproval of a four-year-old policy of medical supervision. He also mentioned "a very flattering offer . . . made Dr. Abbott by another school with strong financial backing." Dr. Abbott only said: "I love this place. ... I dare say nothing. I have no money." There was an air of mystery...