Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some years he has been a sort of press agent for the gas and electric people. . . . According to Charlie they [the Insull group] expect to round up fifty or sixty of the biggest papers. . . ." Mr. Grozier said he thought Mr. O'Malley had been "talking through his hat," and anyway his Post was not for sale...
...front cover) It is sometimes said that for prestige and power, for responsibility and reward, the three "biggest" elective offices in the U. S. are: 1) President of the U. S.; 2) Governor of the State of New York; 3) Mayor of the City of New York. Job No. 2 sometimes leads on to Job No. i (Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt). Sometimes it does not lead there (Hughes, Smith). From Job No. 3, however, since the rechartering of New York City (1898), no man has advanced from...
...into the hotel to hear what the President would say. Those who did not go in either listened in or read the speech as soon as it was printed.* There was not much in the speech that any alert publisher could not have prophesied beforehand. President Hoover's biggest project is Law Enforcement. He urged the Press to be a quick public conscience to that end. Freedom of the Press to discuss public questions is a U. S. cornerstone. President Hoover acknowledged this, adding earnestly: "I put the question, however, whether flippance is a useful or even legitimate device...
...black shoes and stockings. To the mainmast peak she, Joanna Chapman, ran up a small triangular flag picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers on her first trip under private ownership...
...during which each of the 57,000 U. S. pharmacies are open for business. For, although one Manhattan shop blatantly advertises that it fills no prescriptions, 30,000 of the 57,000 are still drugstores in the real sense.* Even Katz's in Kansas City, one of the biggest U. S. stores, with 50,000 separate items in stock, take pride in its accurate prescription work.* The expansion of such department drugstores and of the chains has led many a retail pharmacist to deal purely in drugs. Cleveland has Sherwood's; Manhattan, Timmermann's Apothecary; Baltimore, Hynson...