Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across the White House luncheon table Henry Ford discussed prohibition with President Hoover, then stepped in front of the White House to announce: "Prohibition is here to stay. Absolute enforcement must come. . . . Nobody wants to fly with a drunken aviator...
...smile on Mr. Moore's face while the photograph was being taken suggested that now at last his countrymen must understand why he, after having been U. S. Ambassador to glamorous Spain, was willing to accept the little Peruvian portfolio. There was work to be done at Lima. He was needed to settle the Tacna-Arica question. Now he had attended to that matter, under President Hoover's guidance, of course. All this his smile seemed to imply -but it really meant nothing of the kind. The so-called Hoover Solution awarding Arica and its nitrates to Chile...
...however, was not yet openly declared. Each side ruefully realized that they were undertaking a good deal more than they cared about. It has long been understood in Nanking that if the Nationalist Government is to survive it must sooner or later exert its authority over Marshal Feng, but they devoutly wished that the Kwangsi rebellion was over before trying to do this. Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every...
...McAdoo is just now cake-walking into aviation, he explained last week: "We're in a new era now. The rail-road boys must hustle to keep up. I ought to know." (He was War director of U. S. railways...
...when the Canadian Department of National Defence first started to foster them. The Government gives planes, engines and cash to clubs which provide their own flying fields, hire an instructor and air engineer, and have at least 30 members prepared to qualify as pilots (not less than ten must already be qualified). For every member who qualifies, the flying club gets $100 more. And if the club later buys planes on its own, the Government matches its purchases plane for plane...