Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life's physiological realities have long been discussed openly by advertisers of mouth wash, yeast, sanitary napkins, toilet paper and laxatives. But the inevitability of Death, homeliest reality of all, was not used flatly as a sales argument un til last week. Breaker of the convention was a milk company, Borden's advertising Walker-Gordon acidophilus milk...
...have witnessed in action Commissioner Claude R. Porter of Iowa, a distinguished, alert, and intelligent gentleman and feel sure that if Mr. Eastman's conscientiousness is of a greater degree than that of Mr. Porter, the former is a record breaker...
...such an open break should occur in a U. S. political party it almost certainly would mean at least a hiatus in the breaker's party career. If Governor Ritchie had broken with Alfred Emanuel Smith and the latter had been elected President in 1928, Mr. Ritchie would certainly not have been in the Smith Cabinet. But in Britain party organization is not so strong, individual leadership more important. It is no new thing for brilliant, erratic Winston Churchill to leave the Conservative fold. In 1906 he left to become a Liberal. In 1915 he left the Liberals...
Ladder. Rule No. 8 is the last one: Don't go around without a ladder. That is, always have handy a means of climbing down from the eminence you achieve, that you may live to try again four years later. Most notable recent breaker of this rule is Lowden of Illinois who committed political suicide after losing the 1928 Republican nomination by rushing angrily off without due warning to his friends...
...President Maloney's moves was to inspect the PRC properties. He did not find things just the way he would like them. Steam was the chief power used by PRC. It was produced in hand-fired boilers, carried in long, wasteful pipes. There were 32 old, uneconomical coal breaker-plants. A large amount of haulage was done by mules...