Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germans. Even higher-95%-was an estimate placed upon the pro-Hoover vote forthcoming from German-Americans. The estimaters were a delegation, mostly Chicagoans, who had been chosen by a recent German-American conference in Manhattan to wait upon Spokesman Hubert Work. They said they represented the German-Americans of New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin...
Hoover headquarters lacked specific knowledge of what outstanding German-American individuals or families-such as the Busches, Pabsts, Ehrets, Vogels-favored the Beaver Man. There were several reasons to suppose that 95% was an extravagant figure to quote in this question. President Hans A. Koenig of the Milwaukee Steuben Society said: "Nothing could be more ridiculous than such statements. The sentiment of the German-Americans of Wisconsin is overwhelmingly for Governor Smith...
Secretary Charles Wolfram of the Steuben Society of America denied that any significant conference of German-Americans had been held. A poll of local sentiment was being taken, he said, and would be summarized at the Society's national convention in September...
...Farrell failed to contradict this interesting and plausible theory. German makers were equally discreet, equally silent. But the suspicion grew that in his latest pilgrimage abroad, Mr. Farrell had played a new role. He had been the reverse of a salesman. For once, he had studied, not how to sell more steel in European markets, but how to export less steel, more wisely...
...this light, the suggested combine took on a new color. Suppose Magnate Farrell had made agreements with German makers to keep greedy U. S. hands out of European markets, in return for promises to keep foreign steel from offering serious competition in U. S. markets. Suppose the export combine was for the purpose of making these agreements effective. Suppose the Federal Trade Commission, to whom the combine application was made, should view such agreements as potent and possibly dangerous aids toward controlling domestic as well as foreign prices...