Word: logs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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have undergone profound improvements, but the business of putting a new tariff through Congress has remained a log-rolling party. And each party, more drunken than the one before, has built a crazier tariff cabin to house U. S. economic life. In the hope of advancing tariff -making from the iSth to the 20th Century, Congress last week put into President Roosevelt's waiting hands a magnificent set of blue prints authorizing him to act as Contractor-in-Chief of U. S. tariffs...
...record of Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio is as follows: Born: On a farm in Allen County, Ohio, Dec. 11, 1861. Start-in-life: Country school teacher. Career: Son of impoverished log cabin dwellers, he was four when his father died. At twelve he was sent to live with an elder sister, did farm work summers, got a little schooling winters. Aged 19, he passed an examination, received a license to teach. With his earnings he sent himself to Ohio Northern University at Ada. On the day in 1889 that Ohio Northern graduated him, aged 27, that Methodist stronghold...
...made little profit; 2) when the price reached 30? and people gladly paid it; 3) when radio came along, cut the sale of a hit from 2,000,000 to 200,000 copies, the life of a song from a year to two months. Berlin, the businessman, has a log kept to show the number of times his songs are broadcast over the three major networks. But he forgets to call for it the days he arrives downtown with a song in his head. Then he paces the floor and dictates the lyric, rushes to his big old piano, strikes...
...Insull empire. Meanwhile Samuel Insull, a forbidding man in dealing with his public but well liked by his immediate associates, used to go to his mahogany-panelled office in Commonwealth Edison Co. at 7:10 every morning. Being English, he could not stand steam heat and had a log fire to keep him warm. Sometimes in a busy morning he stopped to write long letters in longhand to his favorite correspondent, his sister Emma (now dead) who lived in London. At 12:30 sharp he lunched at the Chicago Club, often with his friend Harry Stuart. Afterwards he sometimes visited...
...log . . . was about ten feet long. To the bottom . . . I attached a light rope which I put through a pulley attached to a stone which served as an anchor. The pulley line was about 100 ft. long and was manipulated from the shore...