Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four and no more" was the motto of the Finance Committee when it wrote these tariff items into its tax bill. Progressive Republicans and low-tariff Democrats loudly denounced their inclusion as the result of logrolling. An apparent Democratic trade: Barkley of coal-producing Kentucky would vote for an oil tariff if Connally of oil-bearing Texas would vote for a coal duty. Hayden of copper-mining Arizona would support both levies if Messrs. Barkley and Connally would help him get a rate on copper...
...British Isles it is not His Majesty's Government which broadcasts but a private monopoly licensed by Parliament, the B. B. C. or British Broadcasting Co. Ltd. Its motto: "Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation...
...best." Not every pressroom foreman agrees with this proud motto of R. Hoe & Co., Inc., maker of presses since 1803. But the company's long history has been replete with startling achievements. The many presses it has sold make Hoe as synonymous for press as Gillette is for razor, Baldwin for locomotive, Colt for pistol. It was news last week when old R. Hoe & Co. bowed to the inevitable and passed into a receivership. Company officials blamed the decline in newspaper lineage, the fact that publishers are using their old presses to the limit, that "machinery is the last...
...begun last week by demanding that the League take action of some sort or at least that the Assembly name the "aggressor" (Japan). But slowly, artfully Sir John and other statesmen of the Great Powers got the minor nations in hand. As London's famed Spectator has said, "The motto of Sir John Simon is apparently l'artifice, l'artifice, et toujours l'artifice." Last week artful John, a lawyer accustomed to receive the largest fees charged in the Empire, made short work of such whippersnappers as, for example, the Delegate of His Majesty's Dominion of South Africa...
...every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with joy if a young man told her she was pneumatic. There was no pain, no disease, no old age, little thought. The words, "mother," "baby," "home," were gross obscenities, made so by Our Ford (who sometimes called himself Our Freud). Motto of the World State was Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford's in his flivver. All's well with the world." When you were...