Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...said he would (TIME, June 23), President Hoover last week signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. To write the necessary 13 brief words he used six gold pens, which he presented to the conferees on the bill: Senators Smoot, Watson, Shortridge, and Congressmen Hawley, Treadway, Bacharach. During the ceremony, from which photographers, newsgatherers and cinemen were excluded, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, four of the conferees, Collector of Customs Francis X. A. Eble and the President's three private secretaries, stood by at solemn attention...
...printed the announcemen; not as an advertisement but as a lengthy front-page news story. Part of the news was that Mr. Coolidge's career as an occasional contributor to Hearst's Cosmopolitan is, "for at least a year," at an end; in that time he may write nothing for publication other than his daily "piece" of 150 to 200 words in the Herald Tribune...
Like Funnyman Will Rogers of the New York Times syndicate and all-wise Arthur Brisbane of the Hearst Staff, Colyumist Coolidge will be completely untrammeled in his roving assignment. "Usually Mr. Coolidge will write on something in current American life which he feels interesting. He is free to comment, criticize, moralize or recollect. Education, religion, business, Prohibition, fundamental problems of government, fishing, farming and a hundred other subjects are in his field...
...Colyumist Coolidge will observe two self-imposed limitations: he will write no story on the Sabbath; he will not heckle President Hoover...
...Robeson says her husband has a fault: he is lazy. Beyond that she will not go. To a friend in London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...