Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sacred are the relations of host and guest. Recently a trinity of hosts-the City of New York, its Mayor and President Coolidge-entertained Prince Ludovico Spada Varalli Potenziani, the tall, cadaverous Governor of Rome. Last week Guest Potenziani returned to Italy and on landing at Naples spoke as follows of his hosts...
Since 1919, when, in criticizing the condition of the steel industry, he rebuked the late Judge Elbert Henry Gary and spoke harshly of the 12-hour working day prevalent then, Bishop McConnell's name has been perhaps more familiar to laymen than that of any other Methodist. Always vitally interested in questions of public as well as churchly import, Bishop McConnell headed the active Committee on Christian Unity and Industrial Problems at the recent International Missionary Council in Jerusalem. At Kansas City, Bishop Mc Connell was assailed on almost frivolous charges of "maladministration and immorality. " In transferring...
Walter Percy Chrysler, sitting opposite Mr. Dillon at that mid-Manhattan luncheon, seemed a mighty smith. But when he spoke, his words were as precise, his phrases as concise as Mr. Dillon's suaver ones...
They talked about motor cars. Mr. Chrysler spoke of his four models-the four cylinder Chrysler "52" selling at $670 f. o. b. Detroit, and of his three sixes, the "62" in the $1,000 class, the "72" at $1.545 & up, the Imperial "80" at $3,000 and up. He mentioned the new six, to be called the "De Soto," to be made by a separate corporation; and to be sold for $900. He referred to Dodge Bros., which Mr. Dillon controls; to its "Standard Six" at $875, its "Victory Six" at $1,045 and its "Senior...
...with a graceful stoop, he applied to a pile of carefully prepared faggots. The faggots went up in a cloud of smoke and flame; Krish-namurti's disciples, of whom a thousand sat upon the slope of the hill, drew a breath of wonder-and listened while their leader spoke to them in a soft voice...