Word: finding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...warehouses and distilleries and to manufacture additional necessary liquors. The Government would name the original Board of Directors and would audit the books to assure the sick public of reasonably priced whiskey. It will require $150,000,000 to finance such a corporation. If the Government cannot find proper private capital, it will ask Congress for an appropriation...
...Albrechtist rumors last week when the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved the Hungarian Parliament immediately after it had passed a bill recreating the Hungarian House of Peers. When the new House of Peers assembles, the four Archdukes, Friedrich, Albrecht (his son), Josef and Franz (his son) will find themselves at its head in semi-royal state. The Archdukes, as the ranking peers of Hungary, will head a House composed of nobles; of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish prelates; of high dignitaries of state and rich bourgeoisie...
...43rd Street and Times Square. Most of the money went into equipment-marble lobby, rotunda, halls; 3,900 seats; elevators, even to the cheapest gallery seats, lounge rooms, the music room for people waiting to be seated in the theatre. The rug is lighted so that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison...
...coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth that defy description. It is among the workers in such quarters as these that the sentiment for a powerful Labor party arises. You will find very little Labor sentiment among the agricultural sections, or at the fashionable watering places. It is all among the working classes themselves who have suffered from lack of economic foresight and a passion for politics...
...note that at the end of your editorial it is alleged that "neither the author of 'The Plastic Age' nor a writer for 'Liberty' can produce the panacea" and that "the duty of those who have education on their minds as well as their hearts is to find a method by which the doctorate may be in the truest sense humanized". Such a conjunction of claims would imply that neither Mr. Marks nor myself has the slightest interest in the humanization of the doctorate requirements, and what is more, that the idea of such humanization has never occurred to either...