Word: rate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turned the first lap when McKinley made him Comptroller of the Currency. In 1917 he turned the second lap when General Pershing took him on his staff and made him General Purchasing Agent of the A. E. F. After the War he did some first rate arousing when Congress be- gan to question him about purchases for the A. E. .F. and he ejaculated, "Hell 'nd Maria, the Army was sent out to win the War, not to spend days haggling over pennies." He did some more arousing as the first Director of the Budget, when...
...James Marchant, Secretary of the National Council for the Promotion of Race-Regeneration, commented upon statistics released last week which showed the birth rate in England to have slumped to 18.8 per 1,000-lowest since the War, lower than that in France. "Had birth rate among the feeble-minded and criminal classes fallen, we should all have rejoiced, but the facts behind the figures are that the birth rate is falling among our better classes and skilled workmen...
...water on the stock market, the result was quickly observable in the diminished cheerfulness in general business. Perhaps it was the realization of this which induced Mr. Mellon to issue a quite "bullish" interview, with especially favorable comment upon the extent to which shares have recently risen. At any rate, just as the stock market itself has apparently recovered from the psychological jolt thus administered to it, so have industry and commerce. Retailers, who for a while dreaded a slump until after the Christmas season, are now apparently in a more optimistic frame of mind...
...extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...
SUNLIGHT IN NEW GRANADA- William McFee - Doubleday, Page ($3.50). Travels in South America set down by a first rate literary...