Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letters published in your last issue were the last word in blatant conceit. You begin by being rude and contradictory on the subject of Washington's religion; you go on, print a deserved letter of correction (about ships and whistles) because it contains a whining compliment ; then you tell President George Davis how to manage his Davis automobile business; then, forgetting to apologize for the mistake it chastizes, you proudly display a letter from a member of the U. S. Treasury Department; this is followed by an unsolicited list of the U. S. Senators who subscribe to your magazine...
...Read the instruction leaflet and note: a) that discharge papers should accompany applications; b) that, if discharge papers are lost, memory may serve in filling out the blank but that the War & Navy Departments and the Marine Corps will dislike it if you ask them to tell you when, where or how you served...
...make a plaything of the serpent's rattle. His mind does not realize probable results. Emerging from perfect obscurity by the criminal court route, carrying with him the odium of an indignant attempt on the part of the Senate to expel him-he went before the people to tell a story in which his own part had been one of infamy. He assumed the role of martyr. ... I stood by him with such loyalty as only a young man of unshattered ideals can give another...
...Friends. Oilman Sinclair's friends and vice presidents-Henry Mason Day and Sheldon Clark-were "villains" from the start last week. They refused to tell the grand jury anything about the hiring of the Burns detectives. They said they were afraid of incriminating themselves. They were arrested, released on bail.*Their hearings were put off until after Thanksgiving Day, while the government ran out other aspects of the case. "Hero" Burns. Detective William John Burns began last week in a heroic capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall...
This week present more of a problem, But I approach it with traditional fearlessness. We Forecasts are a courageous crew. I might tell you stirring tales of the family's heroic past--of the Forecast who died for an idea-- of the Forecast who was confined for life for lack of an idea. But I will not. Rather will I show you that the Forecast of today need not hide their heads when their ancestor's names are mentioned...