Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...EMELIUS W. SMITH Cambridge, Mass...
...Navy; he soon found the job too tame and resigned to lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. Another Roosevelt, Franklin D., held the Navy post from 1913 to 1920; Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Assistant Secretary Robinson's cousin, next held the job (1921-1924, resigned). In Nahant, Mass., in November, 1924, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on his deathbed heard of T. R. Jr.'s resignation. To President Coolidge he made his last request: Appoint Ted Robinson to the place his uncle and cousin held...
...George W. Wightman met Miss Margaret Blake last week in the finals of the women's national indoor singles tennis tournament on the Longwood courts, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Superior headwork enabled Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, to tire her younger opponent early in the match; to win the championship, 6-0, 2-6, 6-4. A few minutes later Mrs. Wightman and Mrs. Marion Zinderstein Jessup lined up against Miss Blake and Miss Edith Sigourney in the doubles event finals. Again Mrs. Wightman, mother of five, added to her laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery...
...industrialist, Henry Ford has made one of the greatest contributions ever made by any man. That is mass production. It amounts to first rate genius. But just as I am color blind, Henry Ford has blind spots in his intellect. In my opinion he is mentally unsound on certain questions of race and religion. He has a streak of bigotry on that side of his mind that is totally foreign to his industrial ability...
German-Jews outpeddled the Yankees, who turned storekeepers -Woolworths, Wanamakers. The canal, steamboat and railroad superseded wagoning. Religion grew organized, shutting out all but the most gorgeous spellbinders-Sundays and Sankeys, Moodies and McPhersons. Book peddlers had to learn the mass technique that flowered in Elbert Hubbard, Nelson Doubleday, E. Haldeman-Julius. All that remain of itinerant America are the scurrying hired droves who still "drum" everything from coal dust to white space; the glib "representatives" whose backslaps, hotel snoring and smoking-car anecdotes constitute an unmelodioua ground-buzz in the U. S. chorus...