Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While I am not a subscriber to your magazine, which I find very interesting except when it becomes flippant with religion, I often buy it at newsstands and have been impressed with your "inside" information. For this reason perhaps you can answer a question that has perplexed me for some time. Unless my memory has failed me, it is ten or fifteen years since the Rev. William ("Billy") Sunday, the famous evangelist, has been in New York. Now I think this would be a fine time for him to come to New York, because of the prohibition raids on "night...
...defenders of the administration answer that taxes have been reduced, they find themselves in a similar dilemma. The total taxes collected are $24,000,000 more than in the first year of the Coolidge administration. While tax rates have been reduced and some Wartime taxes abandoned, the government actually took from the people in income taxes $383,000,000 more during the last fiscal year than during the first year of the Coolidge administration. And even these reductions in tax rates have been brought about primarily because the administration has committed the government to appropriations authorized but not made, amounting...
...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...
Pending the perfection of such an invention, the People and the Nominees will probably continue making shift with the daily press, which, in politics, has two ends. The People are familiar with one end, the Nominees with both ends. The People find their end lying on millions of white stoops, on thousands of newsstands. The Nominees find their end waiting around in hotel lobbies, anterooms of suites, railroad stations, private car platforms. Their end is "The Boys," as Presidents Roosevelt and Harding used to call their entourage of newsgatherers...
Will Geologist Lawrence M. Gould and Surveyor John S. O'Brien find rocks and fossils giving a clue to the nature of life on Antarctica before the age of ice commenced...