Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circumstance which led to the invention of shredded wheat was the burning of the Steel Car Company's shops in St. Joseph, Mo. By building steel passenger and freight cars away back in the 'eighties, Henry D. Perky felt that he was doing a great public service; just as years afterwards he believed in his biscuits as a religion and, in Conquistador spirit, persuaded the people of New England to eat them, as it were at the sword's point, sharpened by a scorn that startled these good people into submission...
...summons to come at once. From a distance, the President watched their confusion, heard them ask the Secret Service man on patrol duty why he had rung the bell, heard the patrolman's denial of any bell-ringing. After the guards had dispersed, the President stole back, again pressed the button, again trotted away, chuckled as the previous scene repeated itself. Pleased, the President several times repeated his little prank. Eventually the Secret Service detail discovered the source of the false alarms, put in another bell in a spot unknown to the President. When this story became public, persons...
...Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra congressional session would certainly be called...
...only $1 left, but I was determined to get back to New Orleans and the comforts of my home as quickly as possible. So I borrowed $6 from a jailer and arrived back in New Orleans Saturday forenoon, just in time to read that Gov. Long had withdrawn his reprieve, and that there might be a hanging...
Pondering well these words the Chamber presently gave the Prime Minister a vote of confidence, 325 to 251, a majority of 74. Thus the Government of France need not fear to be knifed in the back by Parliament, during the Reparations negotiations, as was Thomas Woodrow Wilson when he sought and failed to persuade Congress that the U. S. should enter the League of Nations...