Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving six months' notice as provided in its articles. After the six months, an embargo could be voted, based on Japan's violations of the Nine-Power treaty of 1922 which guaranteed China's territorial and administrative integrity (and by inference, the Open Door). After a talk with the President last week, Secretary Hull asked Senator Pittman to put the Vandenberg resolution through the Senate, where sentiment for it was hot. Mr. Pittman deplored giving a Republican such a good break so Secretary Hull made the denunciation off the State Department's own bat, suddenly dramatically...
...rise from law school dean in 1925 to Legion Commander in 1928, Governor in 1933, Philippine High Commissioner in 1937, to a radiant White House in 1941. Candidate McNutt, now Federal Security Administrator charged with supervising expenses of State unemployment insurance systems, forgave his overzealous friends but, embarrassed by talk in the U. S Senate, ordered the Indiana board's Federal funds cut by the amount the pamphlet's printing cost, said he believed it had been prepared before he took office. Cried he: "God knows I don't want any Federal money spent in promoting...
...Tammany Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn succeeded in getting Franklin Roosevelt to appoint his friend Harold M. Kennedy U. S. Attorney for New York City's Eastern district, instead of David Schenker, candidate of Mayor LaGuardia and Thomas ("Uncorkable") Corcoran. Interpretation: after his talk last fortnight with Mr. Farley, Mr. Roosevelt decided to appease local bosses; in this instance, abandoned the Corcoran plan to encircle Republican County Attorney Tom Dewey with brilliant New Deal prosecutors and prosecutions. Exaggeration (on the radio by Son Elliott Roosevelt): "Brooklyn is the key to the 1940 election...
Colgate University's Professor Porter G. Perrin also found a discrepancy between classroom English and the way most people talk, also tried to do something about it last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony...
...member of William Woodward's family shares his fetish for horses. They are always on deck for the big races (Mr. Woodward sometimes regrets that his box is not big enough to hold them all), but when it comes to rock-bottom horse talk, William Woodward's best crony is the man who has trained his horses for 16 years, big, moonfaced, 65-year-old James Edward Fitzsimmons...