Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, some U. S. citizen or citizens abroad said some thing or things which some high official or officials at Washington did not like. The dictum or dicta had to do with debts to the U. S. and was or were to the effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches...
...sent a letter to Harlan F. Stone, Attorney General, in which he said that Attorney Michelson was being prosecuted on evidence not sufficient to warrant action. Secretary Wilbur should have known better than to do a thing of this sort...
...been a lawyer and a judge, and from the knowledge he gained from those positions he should have known that to do that sort of thing is a direct act of interference...
...have never seen Chinese politics in such chaos. At times, I wondered if the preparations for the expedition [TIME, Mar. 23, SCIENCE] ever could be completed. Transportation of all kinds was well nigh paralyzed and it was not a question of how quickly and how cheaply a thing could be done, but rather whether it could be done...
...time Mr. Hall waded grandly through a character part as the portly theatrical manager, Max Rosenbaum, strictly "cocher". Mr. Hall is sometimes annoying and sometimes pleasing, but always he is different. To play the fat Jew with every mannerism, every whining intonation caught to a nicely, is the hardest thing that this reviewer has ever seen...