Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Connor: "Why didn't the school committee come to the parents? Instead they took matters in their own hands and gave everybody the impression that terrible things went on." Echoed Mrs. Grace Whittredge: "Gossip! The reputation of our family in town is beyond reproach." Asked repeatedly to tell what her charges were, old Miss Smith let it be known that she had not investigated and would not press them in detail, but still wanted Miss Hallin to resign for "professional reasons." Students began to picket Miss Smith's house with such placards as WE WANT FAIR PLAY! GIVE...
...Letters from men now began to pour in by the hundreds. With an oath on nearly every line, they told him [Bok] that their wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers had demanded to know this cause, and that they had to tell them. Bok answered these heated men and told them that was exactly why the Journal had published the editorial [article], and that in the next issue there would be another for those women who might have missed his first." Then Mr. Bok dropped the whole subject, but kept on crusading against the public drinking cup and the common towel...
...Since that date suited the convenience of everyone else, I had to tell Sir Gerald that he must expedite his part of the arrangements, so that the funeral would take place on that...
...extremely near the point of extending "belligerent rights" to the Spanish Rightists last week (see p. 24), when Downing Street received frantic word from the Quai d'Orsay that Premier Chautemps, in order to get his Cabinet over its first rocks in the Chamber, must be able to tell French Communists that he was successfully staving off this British gesture toward Franco. In this appeal Chautemps & Bonnet-who was on the telephone to London almost hourly seeking support for the franc- succeeded for the duration of the week, and French Communist Leader Jean Duclos announced in the Chamber that...
...just signed a new NEA charter which democratized the board of directors by dropping from it the Association's 22 past presidents, mostly school superintendents and long a thorn to rebellious classroom teachers. And he had sent Chairman Floyd W. Reeves of his Advisory Committee on Education to tell the NEA just how good a friend of Education Franklin D. Roosevelt...