Word: prop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the ablest of Manhattan's wealthy Hebrews is a small man named Louis Wiley. As Business Manager of the New York Times, he is the right-hand prop of Adolph S. Ochs, famed proprietor of that newspaper. There are few facts about newspaper publishing that are not noted in the card-index under Louis Wiley's hat. Recently he held forth on the topic of waste...
...duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...
...American Booksellers' Association met in Chicago, determined to organize a system of telegraph delivery like that which has long been a prop of the florist trade. "Books telegraphed anywhere," is the slogan. Booksellers hope that this will stimulate those whom life has parted to use books for the expression of a thought, a sentiment, as they now use flowers...
...which I did not hear." On Mar. 5, 1905, he ordered a whiskey, lifted high his glass. "If I ever take another drink," he declaimed, "I hope to choke, so help me God." The rabble guffawed. Sullivan poured the drink into the spittoon-a conversion which constituted the chief prop of the Temperance Party for years thereafter. In 1915, on a small Massachusetts farm, John L. Sullivan died...
...TIME, July 28). The Farm Bureau Federation approved it, and the first steps leading to carrying out the proposal were put into effect. This means that the Armour Grain Co., the Rosenbaum Grain Corp., J. C. Shaffer & Co., Rosenbaum Bros, and the Davis-Noland-Merrill Co. have surrendered their prop erties to the giant $26,000,000 Grain Marketing Co. The public is being asked to subscribe $25,000,000 of preferred stock which is gradually to be retired as an equal amount of preferred stock and $1,000,000 of common stock is sold to real dirt farmers. Meantime...