Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition, began a series of articles for a newspaper syndicate led by the Wet New York Times. After eight years' experience, she prepared to say whether Prohibition was enforceable, whether it could be made popular, who was to blame for its nonenforcement et al. Excerpts...
...cheering, pacifistic socialists by War Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India just as surely as she lost the American states! Labor is changing all that. Take Egypt, for example! I say and I know that The Labor government is going to give independence to Egypt on terms that will establish happy relations between both countries and will make our communications with India, safe for all time!" Later at the War Office an apoplectic general said, controlling himself nobly, "My attitude toward...
...playing in the Carlsbad tournament. Miss Menchik has been acknowledged best woman player since 1927. She played in an English-Russian tournament in England this spring and finished in a tie for second place. Miss Menchik lost her first two games in the Carlsbad tournament. It is safe to say that whatever victories she wins will be well earned, as chess professionals are notable for their complete lack of anything approaching an amateur sporting spirit and are not likely to let chivalry interfere with...
...Woodruff. The Editors Harris were ordered to remain as editors, while a reorganization is effected. Simple was the explanation for the action as outlined by the Macon Telegraph next day: "The two Harrises . . . have made a real contribution to this state, because they have dared to think and say. . . . Their task was not simply to continue a going newspaper?it was to bring an almost moribund newspaper to a healthy state. Insufficient capital, economic conditions and enmity they had aroused in some of their fights have all handicapped them. In all their troubles the Harrises have not complained...
Birthday. George Bernard Shaw, in London. Age: 73. After asking that news of his birthday be suppressed, Septuagenarian Shaw issued a message: "If anybody in the United States thinks my 73rd birthday is in any way significant, I will say I think it exceedingly indelicate...