Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
...directors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., Ltd., obtained as their compendium's editor-in-chief able James Louis Garvin, longtime editor of the London Observer and in the late Lord Northcliffe's opinion "the greatest living journalist" (TIME, April 26, 1926), the publishing world knew that something striking might happen to the Patriarch of the Library. Editor Garvin's selection was encouraged by U. S. representatives and the American Advisory Board, with Franklin Henry Hooper of New York as American Editor, was given new freedom...
District penal institutions, explained that the rides were merely jail routine. Said he: "The board of Public Welfare felt, however, that the publicity given Sinclair's assignment made it unwise to continue him in that capacity. It is very unfortunate that this should happen, for some people will regard the board's order as an act of discrimination against Mr. Sinclair...
...Henry Lewis Stimson snappishly observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful to most U. S. Senators...
Among chapter titles in Uncle Sham are "The Virgin," "Accidents Will Happen" and "Fairies." Copious material is drawn from Bernarr Macfadden's ill-famed pornoGraphic. Photographs include one showing three U. S. girls in barber chairs with their faces lathered, three barbers standing by with razors upraised. The tongue-in-cheek caption gravely informs the reader that "the Eve of today ... is masculine in her strength . . . goes to the barber and uses the Gillette...