Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss for a man to put in as Secretary of the Navy, a state-loyal California newshawk sent in the name of Curtis Dwight Wilbur?"Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California." On paper it looked magnificent, and Calvin Coolidge had not then been President long enough to know how magnificent paper can make some things and people look...
...clamor was for increased duties. Chester H. Gray, chief lobbyist of the American Farm Bureau Federation, called for general upward revisions averaging 100% higher than present rates on agricultural commodities. The argument, in effect, was: "We want these rates?because we want them." Few if any witnesses paused long enough on the stand to give reasons, to detail the difficulties of foreign competition, comparative costs of production. The fanner's attitude was that he was entitled to these increases by virtue of his vote for Herbert Hoover and that technical explanations were nonessential...
...which call for the erection of permanent steel stands in place of the former wooden bleachers, the Stadium problem still remains unsolved. Only recently, Mr. Bingham explained the rapidly increasing demand for football tickets, which clearly indicated that the enclosed-Stadium as it now stands is no longer large enough; the time, he said, is almost at hand when each alumnus will be offered only one ticket for the Yale contest...
Although J. B. Garrison '31 has recovered sufficiently from the broken wrist, which he suffered in the hockey game with Toronto on New Year's Eve, to return to practice in the Boston Garden this afternoon he will not be strong enough to get into the game between Harvard and the University Club tomorrow night...
...tactics of the tenth round. This time his feint was an observance of the amenities: He paid his respects in Cairo to King Fuad. At the same time his Manhattan office through Thomas M. Debe voise, collector of pro-Rockefeller proxies, announced,. "We now feel confident of having enough proxies. We shall continue bending our energies to obtain many more stockholders for our side, for we are anxious to lead in the number of voters as well as in the volume of share-holders...