Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter how good an explanation there may be for the phenomenon, there are many persons who find what they consider as profiteering a sufficient excuse for not taking the necessary trip to the square to sell their no longer needed books. For these individuals the Phillips Brooks House affords a very convenient help to housecleaning when it sends its representative around for contributions to the loan library...
...hope gleams through the black cloud. President Hoover expects to take no action in the matter. Perhaps he has a feeling that Prohibition should be started by Americans...
When Edison Electric Illuminating Co. was formed in 1884 to introduce electric lighting in New York City, young Banker Adams went on its board of directors as a matter of course. Equally as a matter of course he left it in 1889-when he entered a sphere of activity more significant even than the early Edison companies, a sphere of historic significance in any year celebrative of Electric Light. He resigned from his Edison connection because it was necessary for him to make a fundamental decision about this new electrical industry which was growing up. The decision lay between Direct...
...this time father was a rattled wreck; He didn't drink, he had anxiety, My mother, everything; he couldn't solve The money matter. My brother had flown off To work his way through School. And there I was In rooms that fronted on a business street Over a candy shop, there in that old, Lonely and desolate Virginia town...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...