Word: spoken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Judge Elbert H. Gary's death (TIME, Aug. 22) no one until last week had spoken as he did for the U. S. Steel Corp. He would rarely, except for politic reasons, let anyone else stand as spokeman for the corporation. Then came a meeting of the board of directors and potent finance committee, and there was melancholy necessity for a presiding officer for each. The duty, in both cases, fell to the corporation's president, practical Steelmaker James Augustine Farrell. His post-meeting statement, optimistic as most of Judge Gary's had been, was: ". . . Improvement...
With the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 Anton Smetona, like Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, with whom he is frequently compared, began to wage a private war for Lithuanian republicanism. The signal chance for the Lithuanian minority in colossal Russia had dawned. By spoken and written word Smetona worked fearlessly for the liberation of his people from the yoke of despotism, resisting equally the Germans, who at one time threatened to end his cherished ideal of a free Lithuania...
...Observers thought that seldom before has a great statesman spoken so frankly and unashamedly in the manner of a shrewd, traveling salesman...
Such were words spoken last week in Constantinople by the great Tewfik Rushdi Bey, perhaps the most wholesomely feared and respected Near Eastern statesman. As he talked, the slender, expressive hands of Tewfik Rushdi Bey seemed to articulate his meaning almost more effectively than his precise, somewhat mincing words. As always, the eyes of the Turkish Foreign Minister seemed abnormally large and penetrating by reason of the thick, magnifying lenses of his glasses...
...choose to run for President in 1928." These were not spoken words. They were typewritten on slips of paper by Edwin Geiser, the President's stenographer...