Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gray Silver, "the Legislature representative" (i. e., head lobbyist) of the American .Farm Bureau Federation, gave out last week a list of some of the things that farmers want from the next session of Congress: ¶A bill to develop Muscle Shoals for cheap fertilizer. Mr. Silver spoke repeatedly of the Ford bid, but did not specify that it was the only one acceptable to farmers. He argued that more power must be applied to agricultural processes and showed the effect of increased power; that in 1850, with 1.5 horsepower per farmer, nine farmers were able to feed themselves...
...burdened with heavy debts and are passing through a period of unexampled depression. We need all our surplus cash to finance our own trade and develop our own resources. It is an act of criminal recklessness at such a time to guarantee huge sums of money to be spent in another country by a Government whose principles are predatory and destructive of all legitimate enterprise...
...bring about the early completion of internal waterway systems and to develop our water power for cheaper fertilizer...
...twice before champion (1909-10), Miss Browne "cracked." On a soggy course, she sliced with her brassie, lopped her irons. Tourna ment nerve had pulled her through thus far, but Mrs. Hurd had tourna ment nerve, too,* and a sounder game than the tennis apostate had had time to develop. Mrs. Hurd romped off 7-and-6 with the title. Even so, Miss Browne's glory was inviolate. Edith Cummings, of Chicago, de fending champion, faded early from the scene, a vendetta victim. In the second round she ran across young Miriam Burns, of Kansas City, whose ptomaine gripes...
...aspect of the question Whether journalism can be a profession. This relates to the 'difficulty, if not the impossibility, under present conditions, of maintaining any consistent standard of ethics. . . . There are, to be sure, certain associations of journalists. Last year was formed the American Society of Newspaper Editors ... 'to develop a stronger professional esprit de corps, to maintain the dignity and rights of the profession, to consider and perhaps establish ethical standards for professional conduct' . . . with an initial membership of 124 editors-in-chief and executive editors. . . . This group . . . adopted a set of 'Canons of Journalism' prepared...