Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeared upon this record. Dissatisfied with its servant of the past four terms, Representative Oscar E. Keller, the League advanced a new candidate in Keller's district (St. Paul). Keller ran on his record independently when out of the business district suddenly appeared a 28-year-old Wet bond salesman, one Melvin J. Maas, to confound them both. St. Paul voters gave Salesman Maas more votes than his Dry opponents could find between them. Said the League: "It makes no difference," meaning that Keller was no longer a satisfactory Dry anyway. But the League's foes were jubilant...
...compare a prosperous bond-salesman of the American species with an Arunta tribesman is in the sociological sense by no means derogatory. Totems are as fundamental as anything in the curious network of superstitions, contracts, and shibboleths which arise from the social intermingling of individuals. The totem in both cases rests on a fairly common basis, a kindred, actual or supposed, and its manifestations its parades and its war cries, are equally noble or ridiculous...
...investigations will have been in vain. And a program of legal research may well appeal to the bar, if for no other reason, because through research we may most assuredly preserve the common law as the law of our several states and the conspicuous bond of union among English-speaking peoples...
...formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator) Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania, and had been chosen by Theodore Roosevelt as his political manager for the campaign of 1920. After Roosevelt...
...southern Indiana furnishes three-fourths. Here 24 companies, owning 1,652 acres of quarry lands with a probable production over the next 70 years, have just merged themselves into the $45,000,000 Indiana Limestone Co. Last week the new corporation mortgaged its property for a $15,000,000 bond issue...