Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, 30-minute speech was over, Gustav Stresemann had unquestionably voiced the consensus of German opinion on these three vital topics. He soon received a vote of confidence 219 to 98. His speech was no less definitive and important than the Armistice Day Address in which President Calvin Coolidge spoke for the U. S. (TIME, Nov. 26) upon two of the very topics keynoted by Dr. Stresemann-Limitation of Armaments and Inter-Allied Debts...
...this point a door opened and through it strode a tall, heavy man of magnificent carriage, instantly recognizable as John Pierpont Morgan. He was smoking a comfortably big meerschaum pipe, but his visage was not benign. He spoke: "This is an infernal outrage. . . . You fellows get along...
...Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were not present as "yellow" and he asked. "What has become of the old Yale spirit . . . perhaps they are too cultured to come here. . . ." President Angell gave...
...traffic policeman named Mclntyre and the Chief Steward of the Cunard ship, Berengaria; its operations had brought $1,000,000 worth of diamonds illicitly into the U. S. The jeweler, Morris Landau, was unregenerate on discovery; his daughter Frances had hysterical remorse; the traffic policeman appeared innocently bewildered and spoke of the many important friends he had, among them William B. Leeds Jr. and "Stitch" McCarthy, the so-called Mayor of Chinatown, Manhattan. Had they happened first upon anyone of these, the detectives might have remained baffled; but instead, after many sleuthing trips across the Atlantic, during which...
Bulls called this reaction "corrective," "salutary," "reassuring." But the market's stubborn bears held it an omen of a real break to come. On the same day, Economist Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference Board, spoke Spanish words at the Hotel Astor (Manhattan). He warned: "Prosperity in the present situation is rather a state of mind than a fact. ... It is an illusion created by extraordinary financial conditions, by exceptional activity in production of certain types of goods. . . ." These goods, he noted, included many luxuries, few necessities. He cited depression in industries producing food, clothing, coal, transportation...