Word: adamantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Erskine, Columbia University professor, musician, novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve). Reason: Prohibition...
...veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
Last fortnight the U. S. farmer was pronounced embattled by Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Other politicians supporting Candidate Lowden for the Presidency chimed in. They said the U. S. farmer was angry because President Coolidge had vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, which contained a sales tax ("equalization fee") to be levied on consumers to guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually...
...degree is awarded for outstanding written contributions in the field of Economics, and has been granted Professor Buchanan for the writing of a critical history of the doctrine of rent and the marginal expenses of production covering the period from Adam Smith, 1776, to the present time, together with a study of Japanese rural economy, published a few years ago in the Quarterly Journal of Economics of the University...
...this festival Wilfred Pelletier, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, had arranged the production of the first known comic opera, Le Jen de Robin et Marion, written by Adam de la Halle 700 years ago, in the century of the troubadours...