Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Through a White House side-door slipped Republican Senators Watson and McNary. Gravely they talked to the President. After they had slipped out again, President Hoover lifted his voice, said things to the Senate about the tariff (see P...
...Defending the $40,000,000 Widow's Pensions Bill, famed Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the late, great, crusty Conservative Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, made her maiden speech. A rabid Socialist M. P., she cried: "I have been getting something for nothing all my life! . . . Why shouldn't poor widowed women get something for nothing...
Rebutted the Countess of Iveagh, M. P.: "Then why not give widowers something for nothing? . . . Furthermore the bill discriminates against spinsters, who may be quite as worthy as widows...
...Will the United States be the next to jettison this unfortunate fancy? Will it be Prince Edward Island, or will it be Finland?" (see p...
...nation that its business was sound, that only 4% of U. S. families were affected by the break. Others were Stuart Chase and Irving Fisher, famed economists, Paul Shoup of the Southern Pacific, Bowman Gray of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Luther Blake of Standard Statistics Co., Walter P. Chrysler, Roy A. Hunt of Aluminum Co. of America, Matthew C. Brush, Walter S. Gifford of American Telephone and Telegraph, K. R. Kingsbury of Standard Oil Co. of California. William Wrigley Jr. and John J. Raskob announced that they were buying stocks...