Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, refused to tell the press why he had come home, promised to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. Grim in public, Col. Lindbergh was smiling among friends when a newscameraman pushed into his cabin to snap...
...night last week Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClair Ickes, most vociferous U. S. critic of the U. S. press, rose to tell the New York Newspaper Guild and a radio audience what he thought of "calumnists" (columnists). He prefaced his remarks with one of his own ventures in prosody...
...Mark Jones, president of the Akron Belting Co., likes to tell teachers what is wrong with U. S. education. His theme last week: let the nation's educators dispel some costly national "illusions"; to wit, equality, security, collective bargaining, economic planning, democracy. Said...
...with a peculiar limp (only one leg bends at the knee and both huge feet are equipped with rollers). He can salute with either hand. He can count up to ten on his fingers, bending each finger individually. By means of photoelectric cells equipped with color filters, he can tell red from green. He can talk and sing (by voice recordings played through an amplifier). He can suck smoke from a cigaret placed in his mouth, and exhale through his nostrils...
...plight of their Rumanian coreligionists, raised a mighty squawk. Dr. James Henry Rushbrooke, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, went to Bucharest to see King Carol. When the King visited London last November, British Baptists and other Protestants sat on his doorstep until they were permitted to tell their story to the Rumanian Foreign Minister. Last February, Baptists devoted a "Day of Prayer" throughout the world to the Rumanian situation. Patriarch Cristea, fairly promptly, died (TIME, March...