Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary of Labor James John Davis toured abroad, visiting and nurturing foreign chapters of the Loyal Order of Moose, of which he has been director-general for 22 years. He eyed peoples, thought about Immigration, thought about the U. S. labor market, in which, according to him, there are now only some 2,500,000 unemployed (Democrats say 4,000,000). On important subjects other than Moose and his own Department, he refused, when a Berlin journalist interviewed him last week, to be drawn out. What did he think about the operation of the Dawes Plan...
Sunday dawned. Eve of the signing. In Canada, Germany, elsewhere, pastors thought of the French capital to which their captains and kings had departed to outlaw what has often been the business of captains and kings. In Toronto, Canon Plumptre dedicated the service of St. James's Cathedral to the signing of the treaty. Later, militaristic Author Rudyard Kipling's Recessional was sung. In Berlin, General Superintendent of Evangelical Churches Herr Doktor Martin Bibilius spoke in the same wise but made no mention of Imperialist Kipling...
...Pancake's opposition to the proposed change was vigorous. He noted that senders of social cables (13% of cable business) will profit by the new rates, requiring only a 13? MUPJY to convey the thought that "all are well and enjoy ourselves," while large users (87% of business) will bear the burden of the increase...
...newsmen, the President's only weighty discussion concerned the Kellogg multilateral treaty. While no longer permitting newsmen to speak of him as a mere "spokesman" for himself, the President still refuses to be quoted directly, thus making it easier for him to deny anything which newsmen might have thought they heard him say. Nonetheless, the ablest newsmen of the U. S. last week were certain they understood Mr. Coolidge's views on the treaty. This is what the President thinks: the treaty is good, but does not in any sense whatsoever constitute any reason whatsoever for the curtailment...
Problems. Serious-minded Commander Byrd, famed as an aviator, likes to be thought a scientist as well. Indignantly he battles the idea that his flight to Europe last year was any mere trans-Atlantic hop. Science was the lure which drew him to the attempt. And Science, pure Science, calls him to the South Pole and Antarctica. These are the scientific mysteries Explorer Byrd hopes to bring to light...