Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington calls The Mall. A contract had just been signed to erect a vast $6,000,000 colonnaded building for the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Were Andrew William Mellon more the Napoleon and less the patrician, he might, as he scanned Architect James A. Wetmore's plans, have thought: "This should be named the Mellon Building." For it was under him (though not because of him) that this department has expanded from an obscure to almost the central department of U. S. government...
Early last year "The Greek" withdrew from the "Greek Syndicate." He said that he thought his heart was beginning to be affected by too much playing for high stakes. Today the Syndicate carries on under M. Zografos, the "other Greek," and M. Couloumidjian, a compatriot and relative of Armenian novelist "Michael Arlen" (Dikran Kuyumjian). Last week the physicians who attended Europe's prince of gamblers concealed the cause of Death, refused to say whether he had indeed died of "gambler's heart...
...John and the Rev. Henry A. Bilkerd, a Reformed Church missionary from Kalamazoo, Mich. They planned to set off at dawn for the Sultanate of Kuwait, 85 miles distant, despite the fact that nomadic and warlike subjects of the Great Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd and the Hejaz were thought to be marauding not far off. Apparently Mr. Crane judged that his party would be safe, and with the best reason: in 1926 Sultan Ibn Saud had pledged eternal friendship to the Friend of Small Peoples, had royally entertained him at Jiddah...
...vote also revealed ? which was no great secret ? that the squad of anti-power-trust Republicans is eleven: Elaine, Borah, Brookhart, Couzens, Frazier, Johnson, MacMaster, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Pine. From one of these it was thought that Paul Mallon had secured his scoop. Such a one as the boyish Nye who is regular at election time and irregular in between would be glad to have the country know that he, in contradistinction to the majority, is nobly bottling "the interests." But any of the Progressives might have done it and Pressman Mallon is specially good-friends with Progressives...
...lion and came out three years later still more leonine. Flaying Maine for being miserly towards education he left for Michigan to try "on a very large scale the educational policies which the state of Maine has not yet been willing to adopt" (TIME, July 13, 1925). Michigan, he thought, was willing. Last week he had to admit that it was unwilling...