Word: telling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...therefore, tell you very simply once more that the objectives of the President, and I believe of the great majority of our citizens, remain the same, and that I believe that it is the duty of the Congress, and especially of the members of the majority party in the Senate and the House of Representatives, to pass legislation at this session to carry out the objectives...
...effect Washington said to Rio: "You credit us with some paper dollars; we credit you with that much gold. You tell everyone this good news and they will be so impressed that it will be easier for you to scare off speculators from your currency and secure commercial credits...
...appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt was Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Ayres was for years about the only leaf...
...town of Opal (pop. 50). The envy of his profession, Petrie never got through grammar school. He came to the U. S. from Scotland as an itinerant house painter, turned up in Opal where the general store gave him the job of clerk. It seemed natural that Fin should tell people what was going on around him, now that he was settled down for the first time in his life. He put it in writing and sent it to the weekly Gazette in nearby Kemmerer. That was 27 years ago, and last week found Fin still clerking and still reporting...
...from a detail which got Khoda Khan out of the lockup. In the expedition sent to bring him back, Sergeant MacDuff, Priscilla's particular friend, who had named her Wee Willie Winkie. came by his death wound. Wee Willie Winkie thought she would call on Khoda Khan and tell him that Old Boots wanted to be friends. Her arrival pleased the Khan because it meant the regiment would follow through the pass to certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter...