Word: adds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...add a new character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
...impose a solution (Italy is not strong enough for that) but to make Rome the rallying point of all foes of the League-as-it-is. Let others suggest what the League should become; then, when official suggestions begin to roll in, Italy will add hers to the pot and Il Duce will try to emerge as Chief Cook...
...toall the ground results in a kaleidoscope of fact which sometimes dizzies, sometimes dulls the reader's attention. With more statistics to the squarehead paragraph than are contained in a chapter of John Dos Passos' 42nd Paralled or 1919, Author Brunngraber's complicated sum does not add up to nearly so impressive a human total. Failure though it must be rated, however, Karl and the 20th Century is significant as a 1933 advanced model of what our old horse-drawn novels are coming...
Prices. It costs about $1.50 to make a case of whiskey (three gallons). Barreling, bottling, labeling and aging add about $6. The present Federal tax of $1.10 (which will probably be upped) a gallon adds $3.30. To this total production cost of $10.80 a case must be added the mark-up of middleman and distributor. For some time to come the retail price of reasonably good whiskey will be around $30 a case. Testifying in Washington last week, distillers said they could retail blended whiskey for $1.50 a quart but they did not specify the quality. Most whiskey men believe...
...famed letters in this collection are telegrams. When his political enemies tried to spike his campaign shortly after his nomination for the Presidency (1884) by exaggerating the truth about his "illegitimate son," he wired a Buffalo supporter: "Whatever you do, tell the truth." When William Randolph Hearst wanted to add his name to a list of prominent citizens endorsing Hearst's proposed memorial to sailors lost in the Maine (1898), Cleveland telegraphed him: "I decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal...