Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...even a pony and pitchfork) was galloping at her heels to join Budennevskaya Kon-armia (Budenny's Horsemen). Only last year, when the Soviet Congress was discussing a project for electrification of certain provincial cities, Commander Budenny strode in and stampeded the session by shouting: "What is all this talk of 'electrification?' What we need is 'horsification!' Give me enough horses for the Army!" On the Chino-Russian front last week Commander Budenny had "enough" horses and cavalrymen ? 30,000 according to one despatch...
...weeks ago United Cigar Co, and Tobacco Products Corp. changed hands (TIME, Aug. 26). The hands into which they passed were those of George Kenan Morrow and his brother Frederick. Since the Morrows were known to be interested in a number of food products, Wall Street began to talk of a new food products combination, perhaps rivaling the recent Morgan merger (Standard Brands). Last week, confirming that guess, four companies ? Toddy Corp. (chocolate malted milk), Edward H. Jacob (canned mushrooms), Kitchen Bouquet (liquid flavoring extracts), Fould Milling (macaroni) ? united in Grocery Store Products Inc., and the name...
...poet, a playwright, a fictioneer and "two geniuses" [Mencken & Nathan in false whiskers] successfully repulse the advances of one Lorinda Hope who "was not a bad young woman; it was just that she had an apartment of her own." The story is completely overshadowed by their maneuvers. Their talk embraces: incompetency of U. S. criticism, monogamy v. polygamy, decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan's dead gentility, U. S. bibulous and Prohibited. U. S. "boobisms," name-changing, sentimentality Bernard Shaw's chief charm...
...Spaeth of the Cleveland News (published by big, blond Dan R. Hanna, Jr., grandson of Mark Hanna) picked up his jangling telephone, heard a voice say: "This is Col. Lindbergh speaking." Newsman Spaeth was too surprised to hang up. He gasped, stammered, mumbled, found his wits, began to talk. As nearly as he could remember it later, the conversation ran like this...