Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Plymouth, Cherbourg and Bremen. The change groups the George Washington with the United States Lines' other cabin ships, the Republic, President Roosevelt, President Harding and America, in immediate competition with the White Star Line's Baltic and the North German Lloyd's Berlin. The Leviathan, biggest and best U. S.-owned boat, remains the United States Lines' only ship of the de luxe class...
...unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...
...young-looking Secretary of War Davis sat. Secretary Andrew William Mellon (Treasury), got the chair on the President's immediate left, of course. He kept his chin up, with his lean, close-cropped, snowy head cocked alertly until the camera clicked. Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, physically the biggest Cabinet man, betrayed camera-shyness in his expressions of head, face, hands (one holding a cigar) and crossed legs. Postmaster General Harry Stewart New took his seat on the last chair, frowning benignly and nowhere nearly so tightly as Secretary Kellogg (whose expression was almost challenging) or the President...
Immigration is the biggest row the Secretary of Labor has to hoe. Three years ago strict quota laws went into effect to try and keep U. S. work for U. S. workmen and not overcrowd the "land of opportunity...
Advertising. More than 2,000 daily newspapers on five successive days printed full-page advertisements announcing the new car. It was the biggest, most expensive advertising campaign crowded into so few days since Francis Wayland Ayer pioneered in commercial advertising, more than 50 years ago. Local dealers "tied up" with the Ford national campaign. Their advertisements appeared opposite these of Ford, giving the effect of a "double-page spread." The Ford costs, advertising exports calculated, were between $1,000,000 and $1,666,000 for the week...