Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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King Pins Turn. To Mexicans it seemed last week that U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg reversed his Mexican policy twice and that President Coolidge gave his attitude toward Mexico a ponderous half-turn. The Secretary of State and the President began the week as exponents of the theory that there was a Bolshevist hobgoblin in Mexico and that the U. S. should say "BOO!" When the booing of this theory had subsided, Secretary Kellogg expressed himself upon a resolution introduced into the U. S. Senate by Senator Joseph T. Robinson calling for arbitration of the points at issue between...
...Kellogg visited the White House. Next day "The White House Spokesman," which even Mexicans know is Washington patois for "President Coolidge," spoke. He said something to the general effect that there had been a complete misunderstanding of the Administration's attitude toward Mexico. The President, it seemed, had turned once with the Secretary to the extent of experiencing a change of heart about Bolshevism in Mexico which was now beside the point instead of being the point. But President Coolidge had not turned with Mr. Kellogg to the extent of wanting to arbitrate. Mr. Kellogg must thus turn once...
...burdened with responsibility when it was noted that, Admiral Williams outranks all other officers of the foreign armada patroling Chinese waters ? "the greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow and elsewhere mobs were incited against the Yang-kuei tze by the old story: "The Foreign Devil kills Chinese babies and cuts them...
...Turn about is fair play. Manhattan newspapers last week invited professional musicians to write criticisms of a Bach, Mozart and Brahms program, rendered on three pianos and with the assistance of a student stringed orchestra, by a group of amateurs factiously styled the Kadenza Kids. The Kadenza Kids were Music Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times, Novelist-Critic John Erskine (Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad) and his daughter Rhoda, and Ernest Urchs, a partner of the Steinway Co. Their object: to raise money for the MacDowell Colony* at Peterborough...
...Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker Rudolph S. Hecht of New Orleans and his associates. They, in their turn, had bought out the Huyler family interests a year...