Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom is to review the past. Secretary Mellon issued his report on fiscal* 1928. Meantime, Brigadier-General Herbert Mayhew Lord, Director of the Budget, worked away at plans for fiscal 1929 preparatory to laying them before President Coolidge at Brule next month. Secretary Mellon began by talking about the biggest figures of all on the national ledger-the national debt. It had been reduced by $907,000,000, bringing it down to $17,604,000,000. The average rate of interest paid upon it had been reduced during the year from 3.96% to 3.87%, a saving...
...biggest and best raid in Manhattan since Prohibition. The following clubs were entered, all simultaneously to prevent...
...uniform. But the police force cleared itself by obtaining from one A. B. Wheeler, boilermaker, a confession that he and six other rowdies, whom he named, had done the deed. One of the lynchers was an ambulance driver. Houston cried for justice upon what Jesse Hoiman Jones, the biggest man in town, called "a stigma and a blot on the good name of Texas...
Paris comment, calculating, rational, was well epitomized by that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
Died. Alfred G. Smith, 53, president of the American Shipbuilding Co., pioneer shipbuilder who-began work at 15, made his family concern the biggest ship business on the Great Lakes, and directed the construction of 200 ships during the War; after a four months' illness; in Cleveland...