Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...develop methods, ideals, and procedures and to present them, to be taken on their merits. . . . The object of those of us who seek the greatest possible advantages for all from education can, it seems to me, be accomplished without disturbing the initiative and responsibility of local and state units of government. . . . A Department of Education similar to the other departments of the government is not required...
...Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter Nye. North Dakota's Nye (Progressive) had declared against the debenture plan. Last week, under threats of political reprisals from his state, he said he would now support it. He added lamely a hope that it would never be used. "The People." The new Kansas Senator, Henry Justin Allen, made his first speech in the Senate, supporting the President's opposition to debentures. When he said, "the people who sent me here...
Back in the Sober Seventies the typewriter tinker was a faithful reader of The Weekly Tribune founded by Editor Horace Greeley. Years after he left New York state and moved across the Atlantic to settle in Tinglev, Schleswig, the Danish mechanic remembered the great U. S. editor. When he begat a son in Tinglev, he named the man-child?today chief of the German delegation in Paris?Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht. The onetime plowboy was. of course, General Electric's Owen D. Young, chief negotiant for the U. S. in Paris, chairman of the Second Dawes Committee...
When this motion dismally failed to pass, newsgatherers one and all cabled that the cardinal principle of the Hoover plan had been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
...successive days no small divergence in interpreting events at Geneva widened between correspondents on the spot and the press officials of the U. S. State Department. The former developed a pessimistic and the latter an optimistic view of chances that the Powers would agree to reduction of armaments. "Mischievous" became official Washington's adjective to describe what was coming over the cables. Finally the views of the President were made known in the following sense...