Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called Power Trust, President Coolidge has not, however, been cold. He pocket-vetoed a Muscle Shoals measure calling for Federal instead of private operation. He chose for Secretary of the Interior and ex-officio member of the Federal Power Commission, a man, Roy Owen West, who has long been the friend and frequently the employe of Samuel Insull of Chicago, the most potent public utility privateer of them...
When Nominee Smith returned from an ocean bath on Long Island, he breakfasted with Mr. Peek. After breakfast Nominee Smith said he was more than ever satisfied with the Democratic plank on agriculture. Forthwith, Mr. Peek declared himself a Smith man. The press headlined: "G. O. P. Farm Chief Goes Over to Smith...
...Smith-Peek conference and the Lowden surmise having passed into Democratic annals, Chairman Raskob pondered the name of B. F. Yoakum. A long letter bearing that signature had followed Mr. Peek into Democratic headquarters. Benjamin F. Yoakum is a Democrat, a retired railroad executive* who developed the southwest's farming much as the late James J. Hill developed the northwest's. In his Manhattan office, he has been spending recent years offering sane and respected solutions of economic problems. Six years ago he suggested a plan of funding World War debts to the U. S., which in broad...
Chairman Raskob gave heed to the heart of B. F. Yoakum's long letter: "The Democrats can present a marketing plan that is sound, practical and would be profitable to the farmers of the entire country, but they cannot do it by picking up the discarded remnants of the McNary-Haugen bill and following the false prophets of that discarded and exploded theory. They don't hold the farm vote in their pockets. They can't deliver it and any one who thinks they can will be deceived...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...