Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Just before we last went to Cuba you had an interview with President Hoover. You understood him to approve of Cuban newspaper criticism [against the sugar tariff]. I enclose two editorials . . . I think ought to be called to the attention of the White House...
...broadened and mellowed the Tageblatt story thus: "Confirmation could not be obtained for the report that the German 'D' banks would cover [Dr. S'chacht's] advances to the German government by short term credits to be granted with J. P. Morgan & Co. It was understood that no negotiations for such a-deal had been opened...
...exhibition is comprised of jars, plates, vases and so forth on the pottery line. There will be scarfs, shawls, and samples of many types of weaving done by private concerns in England and Japan. Lacquer, metal, and textile work are also to be seen. It is understood that the articles are to be for sale...
...contemporary local interest to Boston readers is the comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company found itself last week in the predicament of planning to move and having no place to go. Since last winter it has been understood that a new Metropolitan opera house would be the centre of a midtown development projected by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (TIME, Dec. 31). But last week a joint statement issued by Realtor Rockefeller and the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company declared that the plan had been abandoned "with good will on both sides." The proposed Rockefeller site is tied up with leases until November 1931. The public was asked...