Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round and round the asphalt plaza at the Capitol went a glossy new Ford car. At the wheel, beaming at onlookers, sat plump, white-polled James Couzens of Michigan, wealthiest U.S. Senator. The car, No. 35 of the new "A" series, was a gift to Senator Couzen from his friend & onetime business associate, Henry Ford. James Couzens owned & operated No. 35 of Henry Ford's original "T" series...
...that he feels invulnerable because his wealth takes care of libel suits, and because a large part of public opinion depends on the multitudes who read and Publicity believe only his papers. Mr. Ford held the prosperity of many industries in his hand when he decided on his new car; and Mr. Hearst is able to disturb the balance of nations. No doubt it will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for these men to enter into Heaven. But in life, with kings powerless and presidents so restricted, it might be desirable...
...consider statistics vital. "As a matter of fact, the available figures, while not well compiled, favor my side of the argument. The statistics compiled by the Census Department in Washington are useful, but they include all homicide," Mr. Reading continued. "A child may run in front of your car, which may have the best brakes in the world, and yet you have extinguished a life. That's not murder, yet a case of that sort would be included in the Census Department statistics. On Tuesday we are talking about real killing...
...idea that it is the law of life to let an instinct like the sex instinct go was scoffed at by Mr. Fosdick. "Take the instinct of pugnacity," he said, "which is very deep in us. Well go out from this house now, get nearly run over by a car loose your temper, beat up the driver, batter in his head. How will you explain yourself to the judge tomorrow morning? Will you say, 'Your Honor, I am a believer in the new psychology...
...render to business a further inestimable service by the example which it sets." While Mr. Rockefeller was preparing for the banquet his father, aged 88, was enroute to his winter home in Florida. At Savannah, Ga. his train stopped for 15 minutes and deferential reporters sidled into his car. They asked the beaming old man whom they saw for a statement. He smiled and read to them a tract in his modulated voice: "A smile is the greatest thing in life. There is nothing like a smile to bring cheerfulness, and the world would be worth but little were there...