Monday, Mar. 17, 1924
Harry Payne Whitney, famed sportsman: "I filed papers with the New York Jockey Club claiming the name 'Teapot' for a two-year-old bay filly which will race on eastern tracks this season."
Steve Donoghue, famed English jockey who rode Papyrus against Zev (TIME, Oct. 22): "Despatches from India stated that I 'have achieved only moderate success in recent races' in that country. 'He has not won any one of the really important events.'"
Henry Cabot Lodge, senior U. S. Senator from Massachusetts: "Said I, on the floor of the Senate: 'I have no desire to impugn the motives of any of my fellow Senators, but I think it is little short of an outrage to bring the President's name in here and treat him as he has been treated today, in a place where he cannot speak for himself, where he has to trust to the words of others and where he is unable to make his own voice heard among those who assail him.' " Said The New York World: "For brazen effrontery, this is unparalleled. For proved inconsistency, it is amazing."
Hudson Maxim, famed inventor: "At the WOR broadcasting station in Newark, I 'began a 3,000-word address in which reference was made to certain ramifications of the 18th Amendment. When I had finished talking (after 15 minutes), it was explained to me that the only part of my address that had been heard over the country was the initial 2 1/2 minutes. WOR-officials claimed that 'mechanical interference in transmission' had been experienced. Said I in a press interview: 'The WOR people did an injustice to me. My opinion is that they objected to my talk and gave mechanical disability as an excuse for shutting me off.'"
Wilhelm: "The 27-year old son of my youngest sister arrived in the U. S. The New York American described him as 'tall, handsome, blond, his pink and white face smoothly shaven, . . . nattily attired in a pea-green suit.' It further stated that 'as he stepped off the dock he was effusively greeted by two comely and stylishly clothed young women.' Reporters called my nephew's attention to a newspaper headline which referred to me as 'War Lord.' Said he: 'I dislike to seem to criticize, but if you find it necessary to refer at all to the recent head of the Imperial German Empire in connection with the arrival of an obscure nephew, will you not please use his proper title rather than "War Lord"?'"