Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Low, suave Washington correspondent of the London Post (diehard Tory), suggested recently that the President's tobacco policy is different from any the Cabinet has seen this century. Roosevelt smoked not, nor did his Cabinet in Cabinet. Taft smoked not, but neither did he forbid it. Wilson also permitted smoking in Cabinet, although he did not indulge. Harding used cigarets (occasionally a pipe), passed cigarets to his ministers, but cigar smokers had to bring their own to Cabinet. Now President Coolidge likes domestic cigars. During the Cabinet sessions (Tuesdays and Fridays) there is on the long table...
Though the total collected last week exceeded one billion francs, the franc slumped to a new low for all time, 30.32 francs to the dollar...
...was?like all current U. S. keynotes?expansion of facilities, extension of functions. To expand, to extend, to go on making money, the publishers felt that they must get certain matters adjusted. They protested loudly, as usual, that postal rates were extortionate. They hinted that advertising rates were too low. They declared that the public must be aroused to the pulpwood shortage with which they, the publishers, might soon be faced...
Buick. Optimistic of the future, the Buick Motor Co. is stretching to a monthly program of 30,000 cars; already it reached 25,000 in March, and for the first ten days of April produced 9,639. Dealer stocks are kept low...
Professor Phelps of Yale tells in the current Scribner's how, having made a chaffling reference to the low estate of learning in college, he was rebuked by a student who said that the earnest student is honored and respected in spite of all the current jokes. There is, in fact, something like a Nation-wide revolt among thinking students against the evils of which the professors complain. It is the graduates now who are mainly responsible for the hysteria over sports, and the evils that follow in its train. Upon the campus itself there is a decided reaction toward...