Word: needs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME" and I dislike very much to enter the ranks of the disgruntled, for I have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls, Tex. Son Tries...
...Western Stock Marketing Association said that the co-operative plan was "not a radical proposition," as it did not involve federal control of prices. He said that President Coolidge, while not committing himself to Government cattle-aid, appeared "sympathetic." ¶The President informed newspaper correspondents that he saw no need for a special flood session of Congress. The President has issued this information at frequent periods during the past several weeks...
Fewer Delegates. Some 1,000 voting delegates made the trip to Seattle. Buying their tickets?for the N. E. A. does that, at excursion rates?is a problem that requires thought and appropriations each year. In view of the unwieldy size of the gathering and of a need for more intensive deliberations, Superintendent P. H. Claxton of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that next year's voting delegates be reduced to a band of 500, plus officers; representation to be in ratio with N. E. A. state memberships. The convention pondered his idea...
...America and in every city where there is an Optimist club I am made a guest of honor. I never get unpacked in my hotel until the telephone begins to ring and the invitations come pouring in. Am I hungry? Am I tired? Am I thirsty? Am I in need of anything? Do I want an automobile? Will I come to a banquet? Will I take a drive about the city? Every Optimist is ready and eager to serve the stranger in a strange city."?George O. Griffin of San Francisco...
...Chemical Society. Sessions began last week with some 200 gentlemen present whose business it is to determine what the world is made of and how it may be put together in better combinations of the ingredients. In Industry. The importance of chemistry in industry is now too obvious to need emphasis, but the delegates took special satisfaction in knowing that the huge U. S. Steel Corp. has lately organized a pure research department "of proper magnitude," with Professor John Johnston (from Yale) as active head and Director Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology as chief adviser, to study...