Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shorn of its gratuitously insulting irrelevant superfluities, the letter states in effect that I sought the role of a martyr. Mr. Francis has often read my contributions to the Harvard Crimson in which I have emphasized that I seek no early martyrdom and that the Socialist Party is not "idealistic" but very much a bread and butter movement of workers who seek better working and living conditions...
...China. To read, write and speak Chinese is an asset invaluable to any U. S. diplomat in the Orient. Such a linguist is Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (salary: $9,000). Last week President Hoover sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Minister to China (salary: $12,000) to succeed John Van Antwerp MacMurray, resigned. Than Minister Johnson no U. S. diplomat is more versed in the customs and curiosities, the politics and problems of China where, as student interpreter, he began his foreign service career 22 years...
Chairs were pulled close to the table. The President talked. Secretary Mellon talked. Governor Young talked. Undersecretary Mills read figures from papers. Thirty minutes later the four men arose with one thing definitely settled: There should be immediate tax reduction...
...President Hoover was not yet finished. For weeks another plan had been stirring in his head. Two days after the tax news, the President read this announcement to assembled newsmen...
Taking issue with this augury. Professor Greenough said further: "I have read only a newspaper report of what Dr. Bell said. I therefore venture merely to say that of course the Harvard houses are not intended to be separate colleges. If they should have influence elsewhere, I should expect it to be rather in the direction of breaking up large colleges into subdivisions mainly social, than in the direction of an affiliation of several small colleges into a large university...