Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...list of the Classes which graduated fifteen or so years ago, and a comparison of that list with the names of men who are doing "very well" in Wall Street, State Street, and elsewhere, will show that there are many names identical on both lists; that is to say, ten or fifteen years in the investment banking field has brought success in a large way to many Harvard...
...Third to say his say was Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, onetime (1927-28) President of the American Bar Association and a conspicuous member of Chicago's Crime Commission, warned Mr. Hoover against commissioning professional prohibitors to make investigations. Said Mr. Strawn: "Prohibition . . . cannot be enforced by making more drastic laws such as the Jones Act. The opinion of the American people must support the law. . . . How this can be brought about is hard to say." Last and most august came Chief Justice Taft, to discuss with President Hoover the U. S. Courts and their relation to the problem...
Diplomatic officers, forewarned of a Hoover shakeup, were honestly apprehensive lest the President increase commercial attaches' prestige at their expense. Only President Hoover himself can say whether they are unduly alarmed, but symptoms of his impatience, in the past, with the social graces of younger diplomatic secretaries, have not been wanting...
...sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect of an old man's memory...
...United States feels tight," said Soviet War Commissar Clemence Voroshilov, last week, haranguing a Leningrad conference of The Party (Communist). "I mean by tight," continued Comrade Voroshilov, "exactly what I say! Grown gigantic and bloated with capital like a giant blood sausage, the United States feels tight within its frontiers...