Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
...went to Burroughs Adding Machine Co., then located in St. Louis, as General Manager. He found that the man whom he succeeded as General Manager had left in a great rage. Soon Mr. Macauley, planning an expansion program, needed to acquire a certain alley. His predecessor had a good deal of political influence and the City Fathers would not give Mr. Macauley his alley. So Mr. Macauley took a train to Detroit, made arrangements for securing all necessary alleys and other real estate. Then back to St. Louis he went...
Long has John North Willys of Toledo been a Big Automotive Man. He speaks French and English fluently, has often discoursed upon the automobile business, upon U. S. business in general. He contributed $25,000 to the Hoover campaign fund (Postmaster General Brown is a fellow townsman) and he was "responsible" for an additional $125,000. He has been "mentioned" for Ambassador to France, Japan, Turkey. After the War, when King Albert of Belgium visited Toledo as guest of Brand Whitlock, a fleet of Willys-Knights received the royal party. When a newsman in an Oldsmobile attempted to tag along...
...stock market today is a fair game. Everybody has a chance. That is, everybody who isn't a fool. But a man can't expect to make money on a stock if he buys without any faintest notion-of what tha stock is?as so many fools...
...things a man needs most to play on the market are nerve and vision...