Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given by John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers (membership: 50,000). Witness Edgerton had been arguing at length before the committee in behalf of increased "flexibility" in the new tariff bill. Others who had demanded the same thing were Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor; Chester Gray, legal representative of the American Farm Bureau Federation; John G. Lerch, counsel of the American Tariff League. Mr. Lerch also called for a change from foreign to domestic valuation in administering the new tariff bill...
...Another critic of lobbies last week was Calvin Coolidge who wrote in the American Magazine that Congress was "subservient to organized minorities," that' lobby-produced legislation is "excessively expensive...
...unsettled are aviation insurance rates, two offers last week indicated. Both were for damages to houses caused by planes. American Insurance Co. of Newark, N. J., figured that $1.56 a year was sufficient premium for $2,500 insurance. Continental Insurance Co. of New York figured $3 the yearly premium for $2,500 insurance on property within one mile of an airport, $2.50 for property between one and five miles from airports, $2 for properties farther away...
Airvia's N. Y.-Boston Line. Airvia Transportation Co. last week began its long-planned seaplane service between New York and Boston with American Aeronautical Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes. Colonial Airways operates land planes between those cities. Airvia's first working planes are named the Roger Q. Williams and the Lewis A. Yancey, after the trans-Atlantic flyers (TIME, July 15), both members of the firm...
...came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something in my heart. I want to go to Sudbury where my people came from, and it occurs to me that what your society should do is to follow the line of that human call. If all the American descendants of all the Smiths, Joneses and Mac-Donalds came over they would all want to see where their beginnings were...