Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Vice President Dawes, ever brisk, had written a smart speech. He had written briefly what he had to say, written briefly what the Hooverizers had been trying to say for four months. Something happened to his delivery, however, and the huge audience missed his sharpness as he said: "The real and overshadowing issue . . . is the maintenance of prosperity...
...heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic oil inquisitor...
Another (variously varied): "It's all in the record. Let's see. What does the record say...
...Sure, I'll say I shall...
Secretive as usual, the Agent General would say nothing. No official communiqués were issued. But leading correspondents convinced themselves with significant unanimity that the developments of last week were preparatory, preliminary. The world's foremost fiscal tycoons were understood to have debated principally questions of the organization and procedure to be followed by the new International Financial Commission, which will reopen the Reparations Question. A leading point at issue between the tycoons was ascertained to be whether the experts attached to the Commission shall be private financiers or governmental treasury experts. Agent Gilbert was understood to have...