Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose Senator Johnson to thunder: "I scorn that proposition! ... I demand, sir ... the right to see those documents and to utilize them in debate. . . . Here is a Treaty perhaps not very greatly opposed on the floor of the Senate, but thank God, it is opposed by some men who believe it is inimical and are willing in the face of press bludgeoning and partisan lashing to stand here and make them fight...
...thank you for the friendly sketch of me in your issue of June 16. So far as one can judge of statements concerning himself, I think the sketch is entirely fair and certainly sufficiently be your flattering. If I were to characterization of my criticize at all, it legislative hobby as ''Committee drudgery." The questions which come before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce are so interesting that their study does not seem to be drudgery. One other small matter which I hope does not come to the attention of the member of my family involved...
Water, Bananas. First reply to the Sackett speech from a Power man was by George N. Tidd, president of American Gas & Electric Co. He arose in Berlin to thank the Ambassador for calling public attention (and public sympathy, perhaps) to the high cost of distributing Power. By way of adroit analogy he mentioned water, which costs nothing at its source, and bananas. "The cost of the banana on the tree is infinitesimal, yet by the time it has been gathered and transported the ratio is nearer 1,500 than...
This singularly lovely woman seldom does or says the expected thing. A potent U. S. tycoon (in Rumania about a loan) once complimented H. R. H. upon her beautiful topaze eyes. "Thank you," she said, "I am glad you like them. They are very little use to me."* Courteous but disconcerting, this reply is wholly typical. In vain last week Nicholas, Carol, Marie and His Holiness?the whole Rumanian pack?argued with her and pleaded. She would agree to nothing...
...Thank Your Father and Without Love (Brunswick)?Harry Richman sings resonantly the best tunes from Flying High...