Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Derby, as Secretary of State for War (1916-18 & 1922-24), and British Ambassador at Paris (1918-20), has proved his "fitness" by sustained, dynamic statesmanship. If, during crucial War years, not even the Secretary of State for War could touch his toes, what may be the state of England's great men in present times of peace? This question, mildly savoring of treason vitiated the British press all week, while reporters tried vainly to get other great men to affirm or deny that they can touch their toes. Cagy politicians refused to answer, but Mr. George Bernard...
...conference and spent very much time on several of its 150 committees. Also he had been chairman of the U. S. Radio Commission since it was formed last March to regulate the bedlam of the air. President Coolidge appointed him to that post because Admiral Bullard had kept in touch with every step of wireless communication since it first became practical in the 1890's. President Wilson also appreciated him; detached him from naval duties so that he could act as director of the Radio Corporation of America...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co.'s sale of $75,000,000 of bonds through Kuhn, Loeb & Co., again brought that investment house into close touch with the larger U. S. iron & steel companies. Five years ago they tried to accomplish a merger of these six concerns...
...hotly contested game on Soldiers Field Saturday the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, University touch football champions, rolled up a 14 to 7 victory over the Psi Upsilon fraternity, title holders at Brown University. This was the first touch football game ever to be played by a Harvard fraternity against an aggregation from another university, and the second game of its kind to be played this full between any student organizations of two universities. The Fourth Estate team representing the CRIMSON opened intercollegiate touch football competition by defeating the team representing. The Dartmouth, Hanover undergraduate newspaper by a score...
...people to organize against Prohibition indicates that this will probably be the only issue of great popular interest in the coming presidential campaign. Senator Borah, in demanding that the subject be brought into the open and voted upon, emphasizes the reluctance of the two major parties to touch the question, and shows confidence in the general belief that the country, however wet in sentiment, will unfailingly give a dry vote. What the opposition needs is a slogan that might convince citizens that the desire for disreputable indulgence is not implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion...