Word: talked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rights . . ." he had said. And again, "I assure you the Burns agency is not seeking to help any guilty man out of trouble. My policy always has been to put the cards on the table . . . etc. etc." Now, with a jail sentence looming, Father Burns implied that such talk had been but the bellicose outburst of a parent trying to protect...
Last week he described himself as intent upon "a short visit to America taken purely for my health," and diplomatically declared: "America is marching in front today in literature. There is no denying her that position. It is all very well to talk against it and rave against...
Presenting what it is believed will be one of his last lectures at Harvard, George Herbert Palmer '64, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, Emeritus, will talk in the Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. Professor Palmer will speak on "Selfishness" in the ninth of the series of lectures on religion sponsored by the Graduates associations...
Next day, Colonel Lindbergh and the Secretary of War had their conference ("a chummy talk together," Mr. Davis called it). Afterwards, the Secretary of War announced, "There was no admonition. ... It is an inalienable fact that Lindbergh has a world of common sense...
...York's swart La Guardia began to talk: "Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I am as 'Wet' as any man in this House. . . . What we as 'Wets' ought to do ... is . . . insist upon the Prohibition Bureau having sufficient men, appropriating enough money. ... If the American people want Prohibition ... it will cost them anywhere from...