Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bird In Hand. Playwright John Drinkwater heretofore has dealt chiefly with such authentic characters as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee. It is strange but not unsatisfactory to see him turn now to less historic folk, men and women who are caricatured for the sake of a good time...
...Strother achieved a Washington reputation on the World's Work in the days when it dealt seriously (though safely) with politics. The World's Work, under Barton Wood Currie, onetime editor of the Ladies' Home Journal, now devotes itself to popular business tales, leaving to President Hoover the Strother erudition...
...extraordinary session. Countless Congressmen remained in Washington after the Hoover Inaugural, but their consciences troubled them not at all at collecting from the U. S. their legal travel allowance of 20? a mile to carry them to their political homes and back. Two legislative subjects were to be dealt with at this special session: Farm Relief, Tariff Revision. Many another pressed forward hopefully for consideration. Chief of these were: 1) Repeal of the National Origins quota system of immigration (TIME, March 11); 2) Reapportionment of the House of Rep- resentatives; 3) Development of inland waterways as a part...
...Century British Sea Chanty Rightly or wrongly the Allied Powers dealt beaten Germany a blow beneath the belt in 1919, when they seized virtually the whole German merchant marine of 3,500,000 tons-third largest in the world. From President Paul von Hindenburg down, every German feels today that among the greatest triumphs of Peace must be ranked the Fatherland's astounding feat of building 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion...
...keen readers of both stories last week were inclined to give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...