Word: referring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showing rare good judgment. I enjoy it almost as much as chicken giblets. Until now. Under twin standing picture of Mrs. Longworth and Mrs. McCormick in fur coats which make them look like poor girls who work in stores, issue of April 23, p. 12, re Chicago Congressmen, you refer to "the two present incumbents...
Truly TIME is great. Its style is spreading and now comes a new weekly which has copped its paragraph headings and its lively method of introducing the news. I refer to Affairs, an information service which gives all the low-down on what goes on in the corridors and cloakrooms of Washington. It is very specialized and does not cover the world as does TIME, but its wisdom in borrowing TIME'S features should make it prosper...
...respect to the principle involved in the proposed legislation or the method adopted to put the principle into effect, is an endeavor "to influence legislation." But the special work of a lobbyist is generally supposed to be to exert influence by secret methods and for special compensation. Apparently, you refer to this aspect of the matter when you say, "And Mr. Marvin was a lobbyist in Washington, for the wool trade." I have never been a "lobbyist" in Washington for the wool trade, or for any other trade, and have never received one dollar in compensation for representing any manufacturer...
...destroyer Paulding, which gored the S-4 and whose commander the court also criticized, Secretary Wilbur did not refer explicitly. He admitted that submarines have to look out for surface vessels, insisting only that the latter should be careful. So there, apparently, rested the controversy between the Navy and the Treasury Department, in whose rum-chasing service the Paulding was functioning at the crash. And there, unless Congress or the President reopens the subject, ended the S-4 disaster-except as a legend in the Navy, a leaden memory in line of duty...
Perhaps, by the time this suggestion reaches the correct point of contact, the baptism will already have been perpetrated. I refer to a name for Lindbergh's new plane [TIME, April...