Word: directs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief, cherished by some branches of the Hoover family that Andrew Hoover, Maryland Quaker, progenitor of the family in the U. S. and the Nominee's great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1740 or before, not from Holland as some have said but direct from Germany. He signed his name Andreas Huber at first. He spoke "high" German. He is thought to have become a Quaker after his arrival...
...support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election of the President and Vice President, "obliterating the useless and antiquated Electoral College." All this Senator Norris set forth in an open letter to a California friend, by way of letting people know that he was clambering on no man's bandwagon...
These were the battle cries with which two mighty producers went to war over the Indian market. Standard Oil had bought Soviet Oil, was shipping it direct from Russia to Calcutta, Bombay, Madras. Dutch Shell charged the oil was "stolen" by the Soviet from its pre-Revolutionary owners, including Dutch Shell itself. Determined to keep Russian stolen oil from India, it began a price-cutting war which made Indian gasoline-users chuckle with joy. They were the victors in a contest which was costing Standard Oil something like $4,000,000 annually, costing Dutch Shell perhaps three times as much...
Last week, Howard Elliott died. He lived just long enough to see the N.Y., N. H. & H. pay a dividend on its common stock, the first in 15 years, a direct result of his four years (1913-17) of reorganization. But the most tangible evidence of his labor lies in the Northwest. First as president, then as chairman of the board of the Northern Pacific, he watched, encouraged, hastened the development of a vast territory...
...Sinclair Lewises, the Lardners and the Menckens may continue to direct their shafts against our organization and others founded on the same principles. Ridicule is the weapon ... of a poor cause. They may continue to talk about Babbitry and scorn the Rotarian virtues but Rotary International will be known and honored long after Minnesota's much-read but not particularly distinguished expatriate has been found out as the shallow, superficial, overestimated literary cartoonist that...