Word: wish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impeded and held up aviation-the Navy." Navy officials refused to discuss the Mitchell attack, except for Assistant Secretary Robinson's remark, quoted above. Colonel Lindbergh, however, said: "It [the defect found in the Spirit of St. have been caused by carelessness on anyone's part. ... I wish particularly to compliment the naval air station at Anacostia on the high character of its personnel and to express my sincere appreciation for the prompt and efficient manner in which they cared for my plane." Undeterred, Mr. Mitchell next issued a blanket charge of naval incompetence in aviation matters...
...well substantiated though sensational report told that Dr. Stresemann carried back to Berlin a secret British memorandum asking what would be the attitude of the German Government in the event that Soviet Russia should attack Poland, and France or Britain should wish to rush troops to Poland's defense over German soil. When these Russian matters were up for discussion, Foreign Minister August Zaleski of Poland was to be seen anxiously pattering in and out of M. Briand's bedchamber. When within, he often sat, rumor told, close at the bedside of M. Briand, attentive to his every...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...
Robert Spear Hudson, M. P. (Conservative back-bencher): "I am sure the Government will wish to answer with a definite 'yes' or 'no' whether any of the unfortunate persons executed in Russia as 'spies' were in our employ...
...must get them from a new U. S. Commission especially created to give them to her by Congress. The only alternative would be to let the whole matter drop officially, and for the U. S. to accept from France, from time to time, such individual payments as she may wish to give-payments similar to the $10,000,000 recently tendered by France and accepted by the U. S. "without prejudice to ratification" (TIME, March 14). Perhaps that was what foxy M. Poincaré had in mind last week when he crisply affirmed: "I expect to get better terms...