Word: baits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock clamored impatiently. The President leapt from his bed. It was 5 a. m. With his faithful guide Ormond Doty and Secret Service men, he drove 35 miles to Essex county, hiked through rugged woods to Ausable River. By 7 a. m., his boots were in the brook, his bait was on the hook. (In Franklin county, where White Pine Camp is, the game laws decree that trout fishing shall cease on Sept. 1, but in Essex county the deadline is Sept...
Boots in the brook, bait on the hook...
...Camp, conferred again. Then with Mrs. Kellogg, they drove to Long Lake,* where Mr. Kellogg recalled boyhood pranks, where cousin Judge Henry Kellogg enertained them. Next day Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg motored to Washington, D. C. ¶ The Democrats and such insurgent Republicans as Senator Borah continue to bait the President and his Administration with charges of undue leniency in the enforcement of the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws. "Not so," quoth the President. Then last week he told the press that, in the last 13 months, the Department of Justice had successfully concluded more anti-trust cases than...
Floranada. This allotment close to Fort Lauderdale commenced with much touting of wealthy and noble names, frankly used as bait for social climbers. It quickly became an $8,000,000 fiasco with the owners of the alluring names scurrying from the noisome, unprofitable affair...
...puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control of G. L. Miller & Co., a real estate investment house with branches in 20 cities and business connections with some 500 banks. They reorganized the company, appointed...