Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...most compelling writer I have read. You literally force me to read about things I don't want to know. Once I start on an issue of TIME, I cannot let go a syllable. What the devil do I care about the IMRO in Bulgaria? or about Fascist Hitler? or the scandals of New York? Yet I actually smack my lips after reading what you have to say about...
...President Hoover read with satisfaction a report of his Attorney General clearing his Secretary of the Interior of charges of maladministering public shale oil lands in Colorado. The Attorney General could find "no merit or substance" to the accusations made by Ralph S. Kelley, resigned field chief of the general land office at Denver, in a series of 14 long, legalistic articles in the New York World (TIME, Oct. 13). Declared Field Chief Kelley: "A ridiculous whitewash!" Generally anticipated was a Senate investigation of the Kelley charges this winter...
...letter, from Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming written in October 1763 when Jefferson was 20 (one of a collection to be sold in Manhattan in the American Art-Anderson galleries) was found to read: "I do not like the ups and downs of a country life; today you are rollicking with a fine girl and tomorrow you are moping by yourself. ... I have thought of the cleverest plan of life. . . . You exchange your land for Edgehill, or I mine for Fairfields; you marry Sally Prior. I marry Rebecca Burwell, join, and get a polo chair and a pair of keen...
...brother, a Philadelphia telegrapher, obtained work for him as a stenographer and usher in a vaudeville theatre. He went to Philadelphia, was discharged in a week. He obtained work with a sewer-pipe sales agency. The firm failed. He went to work for a metallurgical engineer, learned how to read blueprints. Six months later he went to work for a cement firm. By 1906, when he was 22, he was making $125 a month, had helped bring his parents to Philadelphia. One day he was summoned to his employer's office. The owners of the cement company had coal...
Matt was a printer by trade, a preacher by nature, a puritan by training. While he read the Bible, went to prayer meeting, wrote tracts, shut his eyes to facts, the family printing shop drifted toward the rocks. It was saved only by the dogged efforts of his eldest son Dave. Little Carlotta, the youngest, saw her father's hand laid restrainingly on one after another of her brothers and sisters who wanted to break away to a life of their own. First it was Paget, whose girl was not only penniless but not good enough. Matt considered...