Word: lots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, Nov. 29, p. 17, col. 2 says par value 32.45c. Now I read TIME a lot and depend on you fellows for facts, not fiction, and I don't want you to be spoofing...
...happened, they knew not how, that they were the "twelve good men and true," who were selected by lot to decide whether or not Albert B. Fall, onetime Secretary of the Interior, and Edward L. Doheny, oil potentate, were guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government (TIME, Dec. 6). Having heard the summing up of Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, counsel for the Government, of Frank J. Hogan and Wilton J. Lambert, counsel for the defense, and having received final instructions from Judge Adolph A. Hoehling, the jurors returned to their attic room to balance the scales...
...Well, it is a book, and there is a lot of it, but it is very plain that the author doesn't know what he is talking about. It is full of slurs and snarls based on the internal consciousness of Rupert Hughes, and expressions of the way Hughes would have acted. "I found 297 statements in the book which are absolutely false; 111 which are extremely doubtful, and 165 paragraphs in which Hughes discusses a character which has never before been discovered as the evil genius behind Washington. That is Sally Fairfax. In fact, the book is written...
They were Mennonites, religious farmer-folk, from Canada. There were 81 men, a sturdy lot, many prematurely old, all wearing flowing beards, shovel hats, ecclesiastic long coats. Ninety-five women, plump, strong, wore long, full skirts, bright-colored shawls. There were 38 children. All spoke German, among themselves...
...workmen hinted, put on the market one of several six-cylinder models he had ready for production at any minute? He had denied this plan, repeatedly. He drily denied it again last week, saying: "Several good automobile companies are now producing sixes. . . . We keep the engineers working on a lot of things to prevent them from tinkering too much with the Ford car." Then he sidetracked his interviewer by discussing the beauties of "economic leisure" embodied in the new five-day Ford working week...