Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after a little fairy of a plumber got into his home for one day. It took the God-fearing citizen a year to find his religion again. And Mr. Sanders runs true to his tribe; he's oh, so chesty. He wrote you: "The Catholic Hierarchy does not speak for me." All right, Mr. Steam and Gas Fitter, I don't fancy Catholic bishops will lose their rings or their tempers about that. But who-who on earth ever gave you the right to speak for the "rank and file of Roman Catholics if let alone...
Sirs: In a footnote of your issue of March 18, on page 13, you speak of J. Sterling Morton as "Secretary of the Interior under Cleveland." May I ask if you are not wrong in this placing of Mr. Morton? If my recollection serves me right, Mr. Morton was Secretary of Agriculture instead of the Interior under Mr. Cleveland. In fact, Mr. Morton was the first Secretary of Agriculture, as the department was created under the administration just preceding Cleveland, who was the first president to fill that important department. In addition to being the first Secretary of Agriculture...
...familiar lobbyists returned to speak their time-worn pieces in the farmers' behalf. The proceedings reminded one of an 1890 melodrama, revived and played straight...
...hold that it is the best policy to speak the unvarnished truth. I have found a pleasant atmosphere in the discussions so far. Nevertheless, I have had difficulty. Often I am reproached at the conference that I take everything too seriously and that I see everything too gloomily-but then, all Germans...
Contrast Mr. Bingham's tactics with those of President Lowell. President Lowell will not speak to newspapermen on any subject. Harvard, he says, does not need to advertise. No one will quarrel with him on this point; not, certainly, Mr. Bingham. But people are interested in Harvard, among them 80,000 graduates. Even if they are given no information they should at least he spared the misapprehensions and the irritations which are the natural outcome of misinformation. Mr. Lowell cannot hope to keep Harvard out of the papers any more than the assistant football manager can hope to suppress...