Word: papered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personally, while I envy men who have the opportunity to write editorials, either under dateline or in their home paper, I have never felt that I had the right to do so. I consider my function as a press correspondent to be neutral and detached and simply to report developments as they arise, irrespective of the effect of the writings on the fortunes of the party of individual...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...
...Czechoslovakia, the Bat'a firm weathered strenuous post-War depression and came at last into deadly cutthroat competition with the old hand-shoemaker class. One day Shoeman Bat'a cut his prices 50%. Soon hunger-haunted shoemakers paraded through Prague, displaying placards: Bat'a Shoes are Paper Shoes! Shoemaker mobs became ugly...
...hand shoemakers, on certain conditions; and the offer was indignantly refused. Then, with his fighting decks cleared, Thomas Bat'a forced an investigation of his shoes by a Committee of the out-of-works, forced them to admit and sign a statement that his shoes were leather, not paper, and finally placarded all Czechoslovakia with enlarged photostat copies of the statement...
...Oxford are decidedly secondary." Maud answered, responding to a question. "One can serve both God and Mammon there because of their relative importance in our minds. Outside activities are necessary to some extent, but they do not encroach upon the primary motive of our college life, studies. Such a paper as the CRIMSON would be entirely too much of an effort for us to make and still devote ourselves to studies...