Word: buffer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the Treasury Andrew William Mellon in behalf of Miss Annabel Matthews of Gainesville, Ga. The arguments seemed so irresistible that President Hoover last week appointed Miss Matthews to the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals ($10,000 per year), the first woman ever named to this potent buffer agency between the Treasury and the taxpayer...
...Congress and familiar with food distribution and the tariff's effect upon it, were ready to believe that the retail buyer would not see much change in his meat and grocery bills. Operations between producer and consumer by the much-maligned Middle-Man would, experts explained, serve as a buffer between farm prices and store prices. Illustration: The corn duty raise of 10¢ per bushel would affect corn products (flakes, syrup, oil, etc.) by only a fraction of ordinary market fluctuations in corn, which sometimes are as much as 50¢ per bushel in a season without altering retail prices...
...William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan; Joseph Anthony of the Cosmopolitan Book Co.; Arthur S. Draper, an editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Reporters were held at arm's length by a hotel detective. Good Friend Frank Waterman Stearns was present as a smiling but non-communicative buffer. One man. seeking an audience but turned away, sent up by a waiter to the Coolidge suite a silver salt shaker but no explanation. Mr. Coolidge was puzzled...
...reach Broadway he starts with an excellent idea. He evidently is bent on making fun of the snobbish folk who bow to royalty. So he spins the plausible tale of a restless adventurer who, for want of a better occupation, created himself a prince of a non-existent buffer state. The kowtowing proceeds until he meets his deserted wife who brings him back to earth. All is well while Mr. Milne is making fun of snobbery, but when he dips into romance he starts unwittingly to make fun of himself...
...home state of the Brown Derby's bitterest enemy, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Mr. McAdoo had instituted the Walsh campaign just for old time's sake, in memory of two McAdoo nominations blocked by Candidate Smith in 1920 and 1924. Candidate Reed perhaps served as a slight buffer between the two, but the returns were: Smith, 132,006; Reed, 57,586; Walsh...