Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young appointment had no overt politics in it. However, Des Moines, Iowa, may jubilate over Midwest preference. Clarence Young was born nearby, attended Drake university there, and after being graduated from Yale's law school in 1910, practiced law there until the War. After the War he was executive secretary of the Des Moines Municipal Research Bureau, which has made that community one of the few in the U. S. with little political graft...
...epitome of the strained feelings engendered by the tariff bill which the Senate Finance Republicans last week finished drafting. Best Democratic comment was by Representative McClintic of Oklahoma: "The working man may worry because his shoes will cost a dollar or two more but truffles for his paté de foie gras are on the free list. . . . His sugar bill goes up as does his milk bill and his meat bill but he can get Gobelin tapestries for his humble home duty free...
...touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must the Dry-voting country cider & wine men be prosecuted. The hair-splitting decision of the Court of Appeals last week, distinguishing between home-grown and market-bought beverage materials, may contain the basis of a solution...
Alas! Whereto may I truste?. . . Why, than ye wyll forsake me all!. . . O, all thynge fayleth, save God alone...
Reduced to essentials the argument understood to have been presented by Mr. Thomas at Ottawa last week may be stated thus: 1) Canada is smarting today at the certainty that she will lose much of her export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada...