Word: timing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Longworth's remarks on the Senate and the general merriment in the House at the idea of the Senate doing "business," (TIME, Dec. 16) raises an interesting question...
...would be very interesting to hear from TIME readers on this question: which is better for the country, the speedy legislation of the House, or the delayed, much debated, sometimes contrary actions of the Senate...
...course the mistake occurred originally in the House of Representatives and was subsequently ratified (perhaps unintentionally) by the Hon. Speaker, but certainly it should have been noticed by the International cameraman and refused publication by TIME as a poor example of national etiquette...
...read in TIME, Dec. 9, the article written about Clémenceau. The story of the "old countess" who owned the farmhouse where the Tiger lived and who was so eager to make money out of his last home seemed very amusing to me. St. Vincent sur Jard, where Clémenceau came to rest during the summer months, is but a few miles from my home. The farmhouse does not belong to an old countess but to a friend of my father, Comte de Tremont, who is also our neighbor in Vendee. I remember M. de Tremont telling...
Since reading in TIME, Dec. 2, of Henry Ford's announcement that, far from reducing wages, he was ordering a general wage increase throughout his factories, I have been watching for news of other potent manufacturers following suit...