Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfaction arises from the fact that you consider our progress of sufficient editorial interest to insert briefly our financial report. I was dismayed however because of your reference to us as "(friends of smoking, drinking minors...
...activity this summer almost suggests that Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg functions best when the rest of the Government is, for the most part, away from Washington. Last week, with plans nearly matured for the multilateral treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats now there under command...
...policemen, acting upon a court order which temporarily restrained the producers from exhibiting the piece, appeared at the theatre while the play was in progress. Their captain, one Layne, leaped upon the stage with a cry that the curtain be rung down. He was rewarded by impolite and illbred hoots from the gallery, by blows and shouts from the actors. Even the producer and his lawyers flocked about Captain Layne, threatening lawsuits. They attempted to make speeches but were pulled roughly from the stage. Ann Davis, leading lady, attempted to make a speech but swooned when prevented and was later...
Greedy little boys, disturbed in a crap game by a patrolman, return deviously, cautiously, to the street corner where the game was in progress. Last week, the small operators, "piker traders," sidled back to the corner of Broad and Wall streets, Manhattan, to see if the absorbing Stock Exchange was once more safe for speculation. They watched, guessed, dabbled. The market was quiet, neither bullish nor bearish. Puzzled, the traders waited for more convincing results of the new 5% rediscount rate, wondered if the battle of the bulls and bankers were in progress, already ended, or just beginning...
When they were not having fun, the delegates to the convention were indulging in busy conclaves. Steelmen, druggists, Zionists and Rotarians, when they hold such sessions, are prone to be strident in praise of themselves, their ideals, the progress they have made and their importance to the well-being of the world at large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world...