Word: momently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...capital, last week, I encountered a man who asked to borrow a dollar to get a bite of lunch. Said I to him: 'That's an old story. I don't believe you're broke, but here's the dollar. This is the proudest moment of my life.' That man was Senator James Couzens of Michigan, richest of all my colleagues, one of the original stockholders of the Ford Motor...
Years hence, when the definitive biography of Henry Ford is written, there will be a paragraph beginning with the hour of 8:25 on the Sunday evening of March 27, 1927. At that moment he, aged 64, climbed into a Ford coupe at his factory laboratories at Dearborn, Mich., pointed the car's nose toward his home, half a mile away. Driving at his customary 25 miles per hour, even though the Chicago-Detroit highway was comparatively empty, he had nothing to vex him but a drizzling rain and a bleak landscape. Suddenly, as he crossed the Rouge River bridge...
...admitted that no connection has ever been established between them and any gang, and they have shown no signs of sudden enrichment. Their identification as persons who participated in the crime rested solely on the contradicted testimony of unreliable witnesses who claimed to have seen them for a fleeting moment from unconvincing distances. The trial judge has stated that the verdicts did not rest on evidence of personal identification but on later conduct of the defendants which indicated "consciousness of guilt". It was the evidence introduced on this question of "consciousness of guilt" which let into the case its disturbing...
...female of the species seems in a fair way to become less gorgeous than the male, if the latest reports from Paris can be taken as at all definitive in the matter of masculine attire. A day or so ago, there appeared at the Bourse, just at the moment when business activity was at its highest, a young man dressed in an extraordinary costume consisting of buckled shoes, long silk stockings, satin knee-breeeches, an ordinary vest and sack coat, a felt hat, and a cane. For a few moments business stopped and the crowd stared at his costume...
...Sacco and Vanzetti are executed, innocent of anything more than being radicals, the injustice done them will be of comparitively slight moment. Of far greater importance is the establishment of a precedent allowing political, religious, and social beliefs to enter into the decisions of criminal courts. And at such a price the dignity of the courts of Massachusetts is not worth saving...