Word: hering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME'S scintillating, crisp, news style is hav ing a widespread effect on advertising copy, and magazine writing. Here lately I detect it in almost every magazine I pick up. Perhaps buried deep down in some article or some adver tisement, but nevertheless there, with its char acteristic...
Mr. Meredith. Edwin Thomas Meredith of Iowa, who was President Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture (1920-21), refused months ago to let his name be used as a foil. But someone-perhaps William Gibbs McAdoo-has been talking to him. Last week he announced that, after all, "I do...
Into the House, where gentlemen were delivering themselves of opinions on the pared-down Naval Building Bill, strolled Curtis Dwight Wilbur, towering Secretary of the Navy. With a smile here, a nod there, he took his amiable way to a seat in the front row of the chamber.
"I am against the presence of any Cabinet official on this floor at the time a matter is under consideration in which he is so vitally interested," he told the startled Mr. Wilbur. "I regard the presence here of this official as notice to Congress that it is not capable...
Down a sunbaked Florida golf-fairway, John Davison Rockefeller, aged 88, last week propelled a golf-ball 175 yards. Up stepped Will Rogers, funnyman, with a discolored dime, and said: "Here, Mr. Rockefeller, take this as a little token of your wonderful drive. Be sure and don't spend...