Word: tells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly think TIME can claim to be "on its toes" in the Cinema column. So we beg you to fear nothing. When Cinema officials encourage cinema directors to muckrake sewers for ideas give your critics a free hand to tell...
...that it should turn to this soldier of ability; of great force and dignity who would not play politics. The details as to just how he was selected to command the A. E. F. are unknown to me but I do know this-Mr. Baker needed no Senator to tell him about Pershing. Mr. Baker did not work that way. Pershing needed no Senator to present his claims for he did not serve his country that way. Further, if anyone is interested in the record behind Pershing's original promotion from captain to brigadier general he should study...
Nineteen guests last week went off with President Hoover for a Friday-to-Tuesday outing at his Shenandoah National Park camp. Many of them went mountain-climbing. President Hoover kept behind six of them-members of the Federal Farm Board-to tell him what the Board had accomplished in its month-and-a-half existence...
Secretary Stimson did not have to call an assistant to tell him who Barlow was. Only too 'familiar was he with the long-standing controversies between Joseph E. Barlow, 67, U. S. citizen, 30 years a resident of Havana, and the Cuban Government. Only too well did he know that Mr. Barlow has been pressing a nine-million-dollar claim which has caused more alarums and excursions at the State Department than have the affairs of any other U. S. investor abroad. Mr. Barlow laid claim to 32 city blocks in the heart of Havana taken from...
Because he would not tell the New Jersey legislature how he made his fortune, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for contempt. Last week his great & good Democratic friend Vice-Chancellor John J. Fallen of New Jersey quashed his arrest as unconstitutional. Promptly Mayor Hague sailed for Europe in the imperial suite of the S. S. Berengaria...