Word: making
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business reported hopefully the outlook in their own industrial spheres. A committee of 72 was formed under Julius Barnes, board chairman, of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to survey U. S. business, to develop solutions, to make business line-bucks, the economic end-runs, industrial off-tackle plays, suggested by his fellow Julius. Sample problem: Automobile dealers pressed by manufacturers from above with new cars, overstocked from below with used cars...
...identic notes of their obligation as signatories of the Kellogg Pact not to fight. The retort of Moscow's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinov that the U. S. note was an unfriendly act seemed to cause Statesman Stimson only pain. His soft answer was to make no direct reply at all and to observe to correspondents: "Between co-signatories of the Pact, it can never be rightly thought unfriendly that one nation call to the attention of another its obligations or the dangers to peace which may from time to time arise. . . . In the language...
Instinctively dramatic, he carefully gauges every public act, can still make even his wife cry with his play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes...
...days prior Mr. Vare had hobbled into the Senate chamber to make his first and last defense. Excerpts...
...Paris home, could not attend the convention. She sent the delegates a cablegram. In return, they re-elected her to office. Her absence, however, did prevent dedication of the new party headquarters on B Street, to which the feminists moved from their ''little capitol" building, condemned to make way for a new supreme court...