Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compliment you on a swell issue of the MARCH OF TIME, which I saw at the Chicago Theatre. Being particularly interested in child welfare, will you tell me whose camp it was that was shown in the second half of the camp pictures? I refer to the charitable camp wherein the children were living in small groups in covered wagons and tepees and lean-tos-the camp where the children were treated as individuals with a view to developing their individual character and responsibility...
...Senate a few weeks ago Homer Truett Bone, small desiccated senior Senator from Washington, buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill...
Fact is the sun compass was invented for Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd by unassuming, expert Chief Cartographer Alfred H. Bumstead of the National Geographic Society. The worthy Admiral has publicly said that without it he could never have reached the Poles. Modest Cartographer Bumstead would never tell you this himself...
...Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
This query left Miss Goldman speechless but when related to U. A. W. Vice President Edward Hall, that gruff labor-man laughed: "Why didn't you tell her we manufacture trouble...