Word: pepfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...membership of 20,000 is exceeded only by that of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. In unity of spirit, however, NACM has the edge on the Chamber because its members to a man are wrapped up in one subject: the payment of bills. "Pep and Song Periods" opened each general NACM session. Executive Manager Henry Herman Heimann, a tall, slender Michigander, keynoted broadly on "The Next 40 Years." One day the credit men and their ladies went to nearby Williamsburg to view the wonders of Rockefeller restoration. There were special meetings for bankers, for credit women...
With more than two weeks at Red Top to pep them into shape, it is entirely possible that they may present a showing on the nineteenth of the month that will give the Blue a surprise...
...convention started off unofficially on a Sunday afternoon with a rousing pep meeting staged by a coterie of Left-wing professors, most of whose leaders are from Teachers College, Columbia. Organized this year as the John Dewey Society, these Left-wing professors succeeded in packing the banquet hall of the Hotel Jefferson with 1,500 sympathetic superintendents. Earnest Professor George Sylvester Counts sniped at four notable targets: 1) William Randolph Hearst: "A foe of freedom of assembly, speech and press"; 2) Alfred E. Smith: "Once a friend of Education and the common man, he has sold out to privilege...
...constitutionality. That the Court might decide the case of Lee Moor in some fashion without passing on the Act itself was possible, but Secretary Wallace admitted, "We are prepared for the worst." Meantime, bound for Atlanta were some of AAA's experts, going to attend a series of pep meetings for the purpose of convincing the South that cotton crops could still be restricted by the bounty of AAA even if the penalties of the Bankhead Act were declared illegal...
Here the Vagabond would take leave of Mr. Cooper for a moment to tell his readers that last evening he did see La Argentina dance and very happily too and after he did see her and talk with her and though he didn't go seeking a pep talk, the conversation did reach a depth when Browning was quoted to the effect that each stumbling block in life could be made a stepping stone. And that little cliche offers a nice transition to what we have to say further of Mr. Cooper...