Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...read every month, to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month." Thus spake Lorelei, in admiration for what she knew to be a Step Upward, and a long, free, women's stride toward Higher Things. Her simple admiration would be even greater had she known that the movement, toward selectivity in contemporary literature had only just begun. In 1927 there was no Crime Club...
...Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Other politicians supporting Candidate Lowden for the Presidency chimed in. They said the U. S. farmer was angry because President Coolidge had vetoed the McNary-Haugen bill, which contained a sales tax ("equalization fee") to be levied on consumers to guarantee the U. S. farmer higher prices. Governor McMullen called for a "crusade" of 100,000 farmers, to demonstrate at the G. O. P. Convention in Kansas City. Governor McMullen went to Chicago and there declared that the number of farmers who would actually "hop in the family car and head down the concrete" for Kansas...
...Mussolini's character and personality carry a strange fascination to Americans . . . especially among the higher classes. . . . It is my opinion that whatever Italy might ask today of American financiers would be conceded without questioning, for Americans like strong peoples...
Observers praised Guest Potenziani for his good taste and restraint in not having asked the fascinated U. S. higher classes to cancel Italy's War debt to the U. S., which Congress has already scaled down...
...China higher praise...