Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today. At that time Mr. Astor said, "Optimistically, perhaps, we hope to make money," but he went loyally ahead. (Today, although hardly a profitable venture yet, has now just over 50,000 circulation.) It was Editor Moley, writing to the President at that time, who uttered words which would fit perfectly in Publisher Astor's mouth: "Friendship for you as a great warrior and chief and a deep sharing of political ideals are precious...
...been written for publication. I merely want to make the material herein presented available to a few friends in the hope that it may be of help to them in their own writing. You are welcome to use any or all of it in any way that you see fit. ... "Last summer I asked some of the [Brain Trusters] what their concrete plan was for bringing on the proposed overthrow of the established American social order. "I was told that they believed that by thwarting our then evident recovery they would be able to prolong the country's destitution...
...Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract out of Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers, now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce, the chassis were to be lengthened and partly reshaped to fit Brewster bodies. Solid, expensive-looking, it is cheap enough to appeal to a certain type of Depression pocketbook, modish enough to suit a rich man's tastes. The sponsor of Rolls-Royce's latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel...
...unfortunate that Wilson has not seen fit to follow more closely the organization and style of the shorter but more satisfactory account written by Thomas Jefferson in the Biddle edition of the Journals of Lewis and Clark. It is clear that he was acquainted with it because he has quoted passages from it several times although their dignified and flowing style makes the elementary rhetorical devices of Wilson appear to be feeble efforts of a grammar school debater. The reader is apt to find tedious a constant repetition of "and now, by God, he was ready...
...Committeewoman from Wyoming and national vice chairman, resigned to continue her job as Directress of the Mint. ¶Jed Cobb Adams, Committeeman from Texas, resigned to continue in his job on the Board of Tax Appeals-a resignation offered in May 1933 but which Mr. Farley did not see fit to accept for ten months. ¶ Mrs. Catherine Rouse Conner, in charge of information for Federal Surplus Relief Corp.. resigned to retain her post as Committeewoman from Kentucky. Others still to resign last week included U. S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian, Committeeman from Ohio; Second Assistant Postmaster General William...