Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple man. tall, with grey hair, a mouth that smiles easily, steady patient eyes, a sincere handclasp for all comers. Secretary Hyde is without pretense. When he is asked a question about farming which he cannot answer he says: "I don't know. That's not reticence. It's ignorance." Once a Missouri legislator was haranguing him about cattle and beef. The talk wandered endlessly afield until Governor Hyde cut in with: "I'd like more meat and less wind. if it's all the same...
...Animal Industry, including the inspection of beef, the control of hoof-and-mouth disease, cattle tick, livestock quarantine and interstate transportation...
...defense operations under his command. His coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero, thick-shouldered, grey-haired, blue-eyed, explained: "The problem of guardsmen at Hancock was to keep the harbor mouth open permitting the Blue ships to debouch therefrom and go to the rescue of endangered Blue vessels off Delaware Bay. This they did successfully...
Sorely tried last week was many a Republican member of the Senate Finance Committee now secretly drafting the Tariff Bill. Each had been placed under strictest party orders to keep his mouth shut, to babble none of the Committee's confidential doings to newsmen clustered inquisitively at the closed door. Silence was such an ordeal that some Senators ducked and dodged away by back passages, while others took the press blockade...
Last week a select portion of the U. S. public was permitted to buy stock in Shenandoah Corp., a newborn investment trust which came into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...