Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speed-reasonable and proper. An excess of 20 miles per hour in built-up districts and 35 elsewhere, presumptive evidence of a rate of speed unreasonable or improper." In fact should the wife of the passing motorist drive at this rate the State Police would more than likely require her presence before a judge...
Then, to clinch his hope, he summoned to the White House seven congressional leaders for an extraordinary conference. In the cool of the evening and for the space of an hour President Hoover told them what they must do to unsnarl the legislative tangle at the Capitol. Leader Watson informed the President the Senate would not back down on its debenture plan until the House had voted openly against it. Speaker Longworth said the House did not want to vote openly on the debenture plan. Then the President spoke: "The House must vote"?and vote...
After a half-hour, out hustled Ambassador Dawes. He flung a few words to the newsmen: "I found King George delightful. I do not know what the usual ceremony is. I merely presented my credentials and stopped at his invitation for a chat. His Majesty was looking very well...
Followed a whispered conversation between Capt. Urbina and his swarthy friends. They bowed to Capt. Morris, and slipped down the gangplank again. Almost immediately the Dutch calm of Willemstad was punctuated with shots, shouts and horrid outcry. Dark figures rushed along the waterfront to little Fort Amsterdam. Half an hour later Capt. Urbina, flushed, triumphant, returned to the S. S. Maracaibo with 400 followers and the disheveled Governor of Curaçao, His Excellency, Mr. L. A. Fruytier, captured in bed, and Willemstad's Chief of Police. Pressing an enormous pistol against Capt. Morris's abdomen, Rebel Urbina ordered...
...truest sense, has come to this country as something belonging to the day and hour and to all the people. . . . This great country for many years has been building up enormous industries, and it has learned that if it is to succeed in rivaling the same kind of industries in other lands, it must take into consideration the ingredient which gives many of them their greatest value?the quality of art. It has only now determined upon that rivalry. It has now come to the point of desiring to excel in this quality of art as well as in technical...