Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: This week in a preface to some extracts from an article of mine in Plain Talk, you made a rather serious error. You siad I was red-headed and amiable. I'm neither and just now more one than the other...
Around the Caribbean and down the whole continent south of it lies an empire which the U. S. would never want to conquer by shrapnel, but which it never will conquer by checkbooks and sales talk so long as there is any trace of powder in the air. The pertinacity of a Sandino in Nicaragua (see p. 16) is momentarily embarrassing. The alleged economic offensive of European industrialists?British, German, Belgian?is momentarily disturbing. But both of these developments merely serve to emphasize the business wisdom of the President's trip. Both enhance the opportunity he has created to interpret...
...that he had a good banking business back home, as much vitality as ambition, a hard head, and a multitude of friends everywhere (in 1922-23 he commanded the American Legion). The sum of these is political potency. When he resigned his post last week there instantly was talk about Col. Hanford MacNider's running for Senator from Iowa next autumn. In Iowa, he was even mentioned for the Vice Presidency...
...have heard much talk about 'our foreign King,' but there is one thing about this 'foreign King,' He is a gentleman and we know his pedigree. I wish we knew as much about those who talk about his 'interference' in Irish affairs...
...Admission, will begin next week a trip which will continue through two months and take him to many of the leading cities in the West and Far West and also to the Hawaiian Islands. He will speak in the schools, confer with teachers and school superintendents, and incidentally talk to the Harvard Clubs in the communities which he will visit. Mr. Pennypacker's prime object is to make educators and pupils familiar with the entrance requirements of the Eastern colleges and with other subjects related to college entrance...