Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congressman Brand see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, this number of TIME, for an account of his release...
...There are a number of reasons for Mr. Hoover's weakness in the debatable territory. The Republican farmers in the section from Illinois west have an old prejudice against him which is difficult to remove by explanations, especially since he is lined up against them on the McNary-Haugen bill. The Republican big business men of the East have, so far as one can ascertain their state of mind, a rather subtle but deep distrust of his temperament and his philosophy. They seem to feel that Mr. Hoover thinks too highly of his own judgment in business affairs...
Senator Nye said: "This is emphatic evidence that you can't convict a million dollars in the U. S. under the order that now prevails. The Supreme Court has got the number of this whole gang, and in the minds of the American people, Sinclair stands convicted...
...dull evening for Fire Engine Company No. 9, one of those lazy April evenings in Washington when you can smell the park cherry blossoms all over town and a fireman's life is just one repression after another. The men of Number Nine sat in their chairs mooning, or wishing some one knew a funny story newer than the one about red suspenders. Nobody got excited when-Dang-galang! -an alarm came...
...well-worn remark to the effect that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...