Word: broadness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farmers' Friend Peek is a stalwart gentleman, middleaged, enthusiastic, virile. He photographs like a professional wrestler, with his big broad chin tucked down toward his collar so that his neck swells. Chairman Raskob of the Democratic National Committee took a look at him and listened for four hours. Then Chairman Raskob issued a statement saying that he himself did not know so much about the Equalization Fee, but that the Farm Problem would be solved by "sane fundamentals and sound economics...
...farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad principle is now in force. Three years ago he talked with President Coolidge on another variant for the funding. The President listened to the soft-spoken old man and sent him to Senator Smoot. The Senator let him understand that political demands in Congress must modify any pure economic treatment...
...Running Broad Jump. Won by Edward B. Hamm...
...public fancy was last week drawn, unexpectedly, to a romantic anachronism in U. S. travel-the oldtime river packet, built like a summer hotel on a flatboat, puffing smoke from tall twin funnels set near the flat round bows, slapping up the river mud with broad paddles set astern. The occasion was a race between the Betsy Ann and the Chris Greene, two packets plying the Ohio between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Captain Chris Greene of the Chris Greene had boasted that his vessel, a steel craft built in 1925, could beat the Betsy Ann "any time." This was nothing short...
Greedy little boys, disturbed in a crap game by a patrolman, return deviously, cautiously, to the street corner where the game was in progress. Last week, the small operators, "piker traders," sidled back to the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, to see if the absorbing Stock Exchange was once more safe for speculation. They watched, guessed, dabbled. The market was quiet, neither bullish nor bearish. Puzzled, the traders waited for more convincing results of the new 5% rediscount rate, wondered if the battle of the bulls and bankers were in progress, already ended, or just beginning...