Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several large hospitals in Chicago, he has been for many years president of the Chicago Historical Society, president of the Inland Yachting Association, but, more important than these, is one of the greatest philanthropists in the country. Quietly he directs amounts, great and small, into channels where the need is most. The money is from the estate of the late Mrs. Seipp, wealthy brewer's widow, Dr. Schmidt's mother-in-law. Also, Dr. Schmidt (born Chicago, 1863) is the leading German-American of the Middle West, the great presider when distinguished guests from the Central Countries visit...
...Against the thesis of the British Admiralty that a nation's requirements for defense are absolute (specifically in the instance of light cruisers), Herbert Hoover maintains, as did Calvin Coolidge. that they are relative. Thus the British have insisted that they need a certain number of light cruisers, irrespective of how many or how few are possessed by other nations; but it remains the U. S. contention that more or less of these ships are required by a given country, in proportion as the number of prospective enemy ships is great or small...
...need not be much impressed by the fact that Mr. Gibson's country, a sea power, agrees to declare its disinterestedness in the question of trained land reserves...
Albert and Charles Boni, shrewd Manhattan publishers, announced last week the formation of a "Paper Books Club." Object: to sell twelve new paperbound books per annum for $5. Frankly commercial, they will not advertise their offerings as "best" books of each month. They said they would need at least 200,000 subscribers...
Average Reader pictures Henry VIII as a fat lecher who married many wives. He was, he did. But there was more in his marrying than lechery. An autocrat surrounded by lovely "maids of doubtful honor," he had no need to marry multitudinously. He needed a legitimate son for the sake of his pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer...