Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Knowing the usual average of replies to any sort of publicity, we feel that this is a most unusual response and highly indicative of that factor in a publication that the advertising men call "reader confidence...
...already-announced plan-the principle of McNary-Haugenism, i.e., "distribution of the cost of dealing with crop surpluses over-the marketed unit of the crop whose producers are benefited by such assistance." He again said: "Only the mechanics remain to be devised." He again promised, if elected, to call in farm experts and have "the mechanics" devised in time for his first message to Congress. (Nominee Hoover had mentioned three methods of farm relief-tariff, waterways, Federal Loan fund...
...Motor Car Co. met, last week, to approve plans for an alignment (not a merger) with Studebaker Corp., bringing together companies with total assets of $200,000,000, making the fourth largest manufacturing unit in the industry. Studebaker will invest $2,000,000 in a reorganized Pierce Arrow company, call upon its selling organization to increase Pierce Arrow production to 15,000 cars yearly...
...with a curled lip, Nicolo Machiavelli, watched the puss-in-the-corner competition of petty princes, watched hired captains of mercenaries scheming to prolong their lucrative warfare, watched Ludovico break the unwritten rule of the game and call in Charles VIII, Foreigner, to settle a local dispute, while all Italians smiled, bowed, tossed flowers in the French king's path, stones in his wake. With still more of a curl to his lip, Nicolo watched Savonarola hypnotizing the garish Florentine crowds into demure god-fearing citizenry, and the street gamins into veritable "boyscouts of the Lord." He suspected...
...told what he would do if he were president: "Get Henry Ford to serve in my cabinet . . . call out the army and navy, yes sir, and I'd close the dance halls and sinks of iniquity . . . jail Nicholas Murray Butler . . . build a brand new Federal Penitentiary. . . ." He achieved the height of his fame by encouraging conflagrations of emotional Pentacostalism instigated in his church by Girl Evangelist Uldine Utley. During this fervent ferment his son, Warren Badenock Straton, had his soul saved and received the gift of tongues...