Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Nov. 5 issue-under "Aeronautics"- in speaking of the new transcontinental flight of the "Yankee Doodle" you say, "By automobile it recently took 4 days, 8 hours, and 47 minutes...
...shall not cancel my subscription, but I must say I have less respect for you and should hesitate to recommend you to every one. Moreover, many more such exhibitions of bad judgment, bad manners, and bad sportsmanship will finish me as a subscriber...
Another compliment to the man whose victory was causing people to say, "A Catholic can't be elected President of the U. S.," was published on the front page of the Osservatore Romano, quasi-official Vatican daily-a letter from the late Pope Benedict XV, dated 1920, congratulating Herbert Hoover on U. S. relief efforts in Europe...
...pulpit the Rev. John Roach Straton, of Manhattan, cried: "Victory was won by the preachers and by the God-honoring women of America. I pay tribute to one of the Joans of Arc of this campaign-Mabel Walker Willebrandt. I declare the feeling in my own heart when I say there has not been a finer piece of public service performed by anyone in modern days than that put across by Mrs. Willebrandt...
What would the King say? For everyone knows that it is not really his own speech which the King reads, but Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's speech. And everyone knew, last week, that on the previous day the great Liberal peer, Viscount Grey of Fallodon (Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916, had ended his long political silence, had risen like a disturbing, provoking ghost, and had bitterly flayed the Conservative British Government for concluding with France the recent and notorious naval and military agreement or Pact (TIME...