Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born at Aberdeen, N. C., 46 years ago and brought up in the manner of a Southern gentleman, Advisor Page is, true to family tradition, a Democrat, though he voted for Herbert Hoover last year. A vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in charge of public relations, he plays a vigorous game of golf, sneaks off from his Long Island estate to New Hampshire or elsewhere to fish at the slightest provocation. For 13 years he was editor of his father's World's Work. From Canada...
...though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes now to husk in and they worked carefully, getting clean ears. When a second cannon-shot ended work Olson's pile of 25.27 bushels was about two pecks better than what...
Awarded. To Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, 58 this month, member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (Manhattan); onetime (1917-25) Johns Hopkins professor, the Pictorial Review's $5,000 prize for "The most distinctive contribution to American life in the fields of Arts, Letters or The Sciences" in 1928. Only woman member of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sabin directs the testing of chemical substances isolated from the tubercule bacillus to discover their separate effects in order to analyze each factor of the disease itself...
...price is cited as the reason the newsprint makers, notably International Paper Co., have been going into the business of selling waterpower to make a side profit, and buying newspapers to ensure their market (TIME, Apr. 22, et seq.). The possibility of a price rise was cited by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, convened last week at Asheville, N. C., as a potential menace. Said the publishers...
...RESOLVED, that the membership of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association views with deepest concern the continued efforts being made to negative the operation of the law of supply and demand and to substitute in its stead an artificial control of the price of newsprint. . . . The membership further feels that any increase in the price of newsprint, in the face of existing conditions will be persuasive evidence that such increased price will be the result of collusive combination...