Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmer claims to be poor.* He insists he can't pay his old debts, much less contract fresh ones for such new-fangled electrical equipment. So in an attempt to elevate his economic standing and put electric milkers, pigpen warmers and auto- matic cornhuskers within his reach, the Committees on Agriculture of the House and Senate last week began hearings on legislation for his relief...
...Springfield the Aurora episode became much-needed ammunition for the Wets in the Legislature in their attempt to repeal the State enforcement act of 1921. Meanwhile Attorney-General Oscar E. Carlstrom prepared to direct the investigation of the De King killing over Car-bary's head...
...shady horse-traders is possessed by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the famed "Iron Man" who is President of Germany's Reichsbank. Today he represents the Fatherland on the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Jan. 14 et seq.) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan and decide how much Germany must eventually pay in reparations. Last week the "Iron Man" found himself deadlocked with the delegates of the Great Powers, who include John Pierpont Morgan. Result: Dr. Schacht, who fears not even Wall Street, expressed himself to correspondents with concentrated, guttural vehemence, thus...
...believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal and it may take a long time to sell the horse, if it is sold at all." Obviously nothing was accomplished, last week, in an atmosphere so surcharged, and soon the famed yacht Corsair...
...this time every tentacle of the press was alert, vibrant. Feature writers rushed pellmell out to Red Lake Falls on a jerkwater train, half box cars. They gleaned little enough, wrote much. In a letter to TIME not for publication Mrs. Christie presently said, among other things, that she has given no personal interviews, ex cept some long ago on economic subjects. That fact did not stop the feature writers, but they went a little easy, because Mr. Christie is a country editor, one of the craft...