Word: fields
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State House of Representatives. Becoming a cotton planter (today he is the South's biggest planter in Congress) he took a prime part in the organization of the Southern Cotton Association at New Orleans in January 1905. This primitive cooperative he helped promote throughout the South as general field agent. In 1908 he was nominated ("receiving at that time the largest vote ever given for this office in his State") and later elected to the U. S. Senate...
Wrote Sergeant Secrett, for 25 years personal servant of the late Field Marshal Earl Haig: "He had that little peculiarity about him-he hated parting with actual coin of the realm...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., Secretary of Commerce in the Wilson Cabinet, president of the National Institute of Social Sciences, author (Dependent America, We and the World). Other committeemen include: Rev. Charles Stedman MacFar-land of Mountain Lakes, N. J., General Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches and National Field Scout Commander of the Boy Scouts of America; Margaret Tyson Applegarth of Rochester. N. Y., children's author (The School of Mother's Knee); Stanley High, brisk young editor of the Christian Herald...
Dishonest Ear. Through a fold of cloth which covered without concealing it, the metal ear of a sound device at Mills Field, San Francisco, recorded against the noise of airplane motors the following dialog between Colonel Charles Lindbergh and a fellow who had shambled toward...
Said President Hines: "The industry is fully alert to the necessity for maintaining cotton in a prominent position in the high-styled field in order to keep this market in advance of the volume market ... I believe that the industry appreciates the results of these special [Institute] efforts . . . and will wish to continue and enlarge the program...