Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: More than 50 years ago Charles A. Dana had a writer on the Sun (was his name Cummings?) who was known as the great American condenser. Think TIME has several of them. When Grant was President there was much talk of corruption in Washington. Bclknap and Dent his brother-in-law were the chief ones to blame. The President said "Let no guilty man escape." Wouldn't it be fine if pur President would choose to say as much, instead of entertaining at breakfast such men as -, - and big -*? Oh, for Roosevelt at such a time! JAMES...
...August Bickel, keen, versatile Scripps-Howard newspaper executive, recently returned from around-the-world journey which included Russia. Soon Mr. Bickel continued: "While I visited Moscow Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, despite the fact he was so ill that he was compelled to remain in bed, was good enough to talk with me one evening ... of Russian-American relations...
...Christmas Day in 1921, I had a telephone call from Mrs. Carolyn Votaw, the President's sister, who was at the White House: 'Come on over,' she said, 'Wernie wants to talk to you.' She always called the Pres ident 'Wernie.' I went over and found the President sitting all alone in his office and evidently very depressed. He said, 'Merry Christmas,' reached into a right-hand drawer of his desk, pulled out a plug of Piper Heidsieck and took a chew. He got up and looked out on the White House garden and said: 'Help yourself to a cigaret...
Eight years ago motor-maker Henry Ford bought a magazine. Mr. Ford, like many another national figure, wanted an organ which would distribute his own distillate of the world-wide torrent of printed talk about him. The sheet was called The Dearborn Independent. It contained articles of opinion, ethical, political, factual: also Mr. Ford's page. These bits of philosophy (collected in a volume called Ford Ideals) were reported as prompted, if not actually penned, by Mr. Ford. Latterly The Dearborn Independent suggested one idea to many a U. S. mind-anti-Semitism. Its columns carried Jewish articles which...
...Freshman hockey season will be launched officially tonight in the Smith Halls Common Room, when J. P. Chase '28, captain of the University sextet, and Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 will talk...