Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once Secretary of Commerce Hoover met quarterly with editors of trade papers to answer their questions. Last week. President Hoover turned on the editors, asked instead of answering questions, was assured that U. S. business is prosperous and likely to continue...
...restrictions are put into effect. The radio has too many other uses and has become too integral a part of the life of the country to be displaced because one of its fields of activity is barred. If listeners-in cannot hear the broadcasting of a big-league game, instead of selling their sets and going to see the game they will tune in on the amateur tennis or polo match which the broadcasters will substitute. There would be loss all around, for at present during a large part of the year amateur sports have neither the facilities nor often...
...many a year it has been one of the chief markets for U. S., Canadian, South American silver. But lately silver prices have decreased, the Chinese market slowed. Reasons: overproduction of silver in the U. S., Mexico. Then, too, India, once a great Chinese silver buyer, has been selling instead of buying. France and Belgium in the last two years have sold 40,000,000 ounces of silver. Inevitably the Chinese market was flooded, the price of silver fell. Inevitable too was the bearish selling of Chinese speculators last week. But silver-men opined last week that in spite...
...popular preference for acrobatics instead of music that started Mr. Ringling, youngest of seven Ringling Bros.* on his career as circus-man. Back in the late '70s, the brothers organized a concert troupe, discovered that the addition first of a contortionist, later of a trapeze act, materially increased box office business. Then came a menagerie in the shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant...
Chesterton v. Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to assail Mr. Wells, evolutionist. He began by talking about atheists, of whom, he said, the world has very few. "An atheist," he boomed, "is much more difficult to emancipate than any one else because he is, above all people, the narrowest and most completely captive." But Mr. Wells...