"Government officials" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... between the Army and Navy sides of | |the field. Mrs. Galt will arrive with him shortly | |before 1 o'clock on the train which brings besides | |them one of the largest and most distinguished | |delegations of government officials, army and navy | |officers, who ever saw an Army-Navy game. | | | |Secretary Garrison will be whooping it up for the | |Army on the cadets' side of the field. Secretary | |Daniels, reinforced by his twenty-one-year-old son, | |will be right there where the Blue and Gold of the | ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer
... Boers and highly respected by the Uitlanders. They stated that they had come with the olive branch, that the Government had sent them to the Reform Committee to invite a delegation of that Committee to meet in Pretoria a Commission of Government officials, with the object of arranging an amicable settlement of the political questions. They emphatically asserted that the Government would meet the Reform Committee half-way—that the Government was anxious to prevent bloodshed, &c. That ...
— A Woman's Part in a Revolution • Natalie Harris Hammond
... Jardies on the very day when the royal interdiction reached him, relates that he talked of nothing else but his plans for improving his property. Balzac's friends, headed by Victor Hugo, tried to use their influence with the government officials, but the latter were powerless to do otherwise than to confirm the order of Louis Philippe; the royal edict had been imperative. The government offered to pay Balzac an ...
— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet
... succeeded to a thoroughly bad command. He had no naval force whatever; and the military force had become worse instead of better. The mutiny in December had left the 560 regulars in a very sullen frame of mind. They knew that acquisitive government officials were cheating them out of their proper rations of bacon and beans. The officials knew that the soldiers knew. And so suspicion and resentment grew strong between them. The only other force was the militia, which, with ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood
... mention Messrs. G. R. Lambert, Singapore; John Waters, Suva, Fiji; Kerry & Co., Sydney; and G. O. Manning, New Guinea. To these and all others who have helped me I now tender my heartiest thanks. I have met with so much help and kindness during my wanderings from Government officials and others that if I were here to mention all, the list would be a large one. I shall therefore have to be content with only mentioning the principal names of those in the countries I have here ...
— Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And in Borneo and the Philippines • H. Wilfrid Walker
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