Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones bill there is more need than ever for an executive capable of restraining the excesses of Congressmen. The best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
Cried chief and successful Filibusterer the Rt. Hon. Thomas L. Church of Toronto : "We need a Mussolini in Canada to wield a big stick over our big corporations! . . . The additional capital stock which the Bell Company seeks power to issue would never be utilized for extensions or added service to the public, but would be gobbled up in a huge melon split. . . . Outrageous...
...properly advertised their product. Its nutritive value is great compared to that of other common foods." Mr. Shoaf was addressing a conference of rice-growers and millers of the three principal rice-growing states (Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana), meeting last week in New Orleans. They talked about the need for advertising in order to market effectively their annual output of 6,500,000 barrels of rice; planned an aggressive campaign to make the nation rice-conscious. Last week they met again in Jennings and talked about the same...
Three dangers he sees, turning from the past to look into the future. First, he finds that the cost of high pressure distribution is beginning to offset the saving of mass productions. In the second place, mass production is threatened by hand-to-mouth buying, fostered by the need for rapid distribution and the consequently developed habit of rapid "style-change". And in the third place, Mr. Mazur sees danger to our prosperity from a change in the European trade balance...
...amateur performance which for its success rests not on its amateurishness but rather on its sound theatrical value. The Pudding shows will draw them in regardless of real merit all along the tour and in Cambridge because of their appeal to Harvard followers. They do not need to be hits to have full houses. In view of this, it is gratifying to witness at the hands of this organization a production which can be placed with the best of college theatricals...