Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their bi-weekly conferences with the Press, Presidents often say many a confidential thing designed only for the discreet ears of working newsmen. Last week President Hoover tightened the admission to these conferences, caused all newsmen to sign pledges that they were not connected with any brokerage tipping service...
...conceal his identity, the Hero draped canvas over the word "Mouette" on the cruiser's stern. The Coast Guard announced its right to shoot at anybody who did such a thing. The Mouette reached York Harbor, Me., and one Frank ("Red") Dolan, New York Daily News reporter who had known Lieut. Lindbergh in his pre-hero days at Roosevelt Field, set out for an interview. He reminded the Colonel of the good old days when he liked to pose and asked for just one picture of the Hero's wife, still out of sight below. But the Hero, who, according...
...third thing the President did to set the stage for renewed international negotiations. He gave up his customary weekend fishing trip, called in Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams to learn what progress U. S. experts were making in developing a "yardstick." Through Secretary Adams he ordered the Navy's 1931 budget estimates held up at the department instead of being forwarded to the Treasury. The President postponed the estimates for two months in the expectation that within that time a new basis for naval reduction will be found...
When the sun came up, it fell upon a black thing hanging from a tree four miles from Alamo. There was a scribbled note attached: "To hang here till 4 p. m. Thursday...
...excuse their acts on the grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults" and regards his "editorial" precisely as the students of Harvard regard it: merely a collection of meaningless invective...