Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first U. S. passenger car with a front-wheel drive...
Were the Governor-guests ranked around the conference table the way their States ranked in oil-production, the youngest executive would sit at the head. Gov. Dan Moody (lower left on front cover) of Texas is 36. His State recently has been exuding oil at the terrific rate of approximately 780,000 barrels...
Next to Gov. Moody, if this order were followed, would sit California's Gov. Clement Calhoun Young. 60, onetime schoolteacher and realtor (lower right, front cover). While oil gushed from his State's fields at the rate of about 769,000 barrels per day, Gov. Young was prepared to tell his conferees something of his State's efforts to limit crude oil and gas production. California has a State Oil Umpire (F. C. Van Diesne) to curtail production. Potential production is estimated by a general engineering committee of the oil operators and from these estimates Umpire...
...week to Rio de Janeiro editors was neither politics, crime nor disaster, but the arrival in the U. S. of Miss Olga Bergamini De Sa, "Miss Brazil," for an international beauty contest to be held June 8-12 in Galveston, Tex. Shouldering other matter from Rio's front pages were rapt descriptions of how Manhattan welcomed shapely Olga. Rio editors dissertated on the significance of the occasion...
...going to talk to you," said he, "on the necessity of being a snob ... a gentleman, belonging to the ruling class. You have got to take the rule away from the bootlegger, the politician and the man who came up from one suspender button. . . . Put on a front. One of the reasons for Harvard's greatness is that in all her 300 years she has put on a big front. Harvard never apologizes, never argues, never listens to criticism, but goes on calmly putting on her front and gets publicity for that very reason. What applies to the corporation...