Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conference? In his public remarks last week Privy Seal Jim only hinted in broadest terms at the subject of his several private conferences with Prime Minister King and numerous Canadian tycoons, including august Sir Henry Thornton, President of the Canadian National Railways. "I do not propose to tell the Canadian people how to carry on their business!" stoutly maintained Jim Thomas. "They know more about that than I do." But he added. "We in Great Britain would like a share in the orders now going to foreign countries. It is a mistake to assume that Governments know nothing of business...
...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
...crack suddenly under the strain of the Sino-Russian crisis one day last week. At a meeting of the Cabinet at Nanking he wrung his small bony hands and wailed out despairingly one of the most remarkable speeches ever made by a Chief Executive on the eve of war. "Tell me the reason," began Chiang excitedly, "tell me why Soviet Russia can oppress our people...
Alfred Emanuel Smith was asked how he wrote "Up to Now," his serial auto-biography currently appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. Answered he: "I dictated it. . . . I'll tell you the secret of concentration. Just get in the front seat of a car. Light a good cigar and ride along looking at your feet. It's a great way to write articles...
Boosters. In the U. S., approximately $1,500,000,000 is annually expended on advertising. Natural was it for the Greatest Advertising Country to tell the Lesser Advertising Countries how to advertise. Prime among U. S. boosters was dynamic, hard-plugging, big-thinking President Younggreen...