Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Five of the six New England Governors (all but Rhode Island's Aram J. Pothier) sat down together in the waiting room of Boston's new North Station. The room had been converted for the moment into a banquet hall. They watched a light go on, made speeches. The light-lighter was, of course, President Coolidge, button-pushing in Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license...
...Sunday Captain Carey was striving to reach by radio the Voltaire, of his own line, bound north and in the approximate locality. Meanwhile, the Voltaire had been instructed to go to aid the laboring Vestris. She could not do so on account of broken propeller and adverse winds...
...Kulak to sell their grain to the State at prices fixed by it-low prices. Most of this grain is consumed in Russian cities, but Stalin's policy is to sell as much as possible abroad. Profits from grain and nearly all other kinds of export sales to go, of course, entirely to the State Monopoly-entirely into the State Treasury-and thus provide cash for such vast industrialization projects as the $25,000,000 contract just let to the International General Electric Company of New York (TIME, Oct. 29) for electrification in the Soviet Union...
...cried much, like a mother. But then I stopped, because after all he was a man, and it was his own affair. Now I know that he did right, for he is the President of Russia. I am just a peasant who has a good son. When I go to Moscow I never ride in his automobile. Such a woman as I should walk...
...that is the thing. Be happy. . . . When my time comes to die I do not want to be surrounded by granite and marble. I want to be amidst steel, beams and 'Ls' where I have been happy all my life. I will now leave you to go back to my business but I again will say-be good natured...