Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous group of ballots a number of the voters declared themselves unfit or incapable of deciding on the Now Deal question, which read "Do you feel that the policies of the Roosevelt administration offer a satisfactory method of Recovery?" On the governorship fight most were able to decide
Involving a sacrifice of perhaps $2,000,000 a year, the action on poster panels was inspired by no high-toned moral considerations but by the fact that: 1) a large number of the 75,000,000 U. S. citizens who are supposed to read billboard advertising regard hard liquor advertising in church & school communities as something less than a mixed blessing; 2) many a big advertiser like Henry Ford, Howard Heinz or W. K. Kellogg would be profoundly shocked to see his posters hard by one for Golden Wedding rye; 3) poster space is sold in "showings" or fixed...
...Over the objections of President Samuel F. Houston of Real Estate Trust Co., Philadelphia, the Deputies sent greetings to General Hugh S. Johnson, whom illness prevented from being present as a Deputy. Asked why he objected, Deputy Houston replied: '"Why, don't you read the papers? Everything that man says has to be censored by his secretary...
Churchmen and laymen had heard him read a minority report, launch into an impassioned argument. Suddenly, when another delegate interrupted on a point of order, they beheld the lawyer falter. Quick tears came to his eyes. His knuckles grew white clenching the rostrum. While the Deputies hushed, he fought to control himself, finally spoke in a low, choked voice: "I find it impossible to finish what I was going to say. This means so much...
...Citizen. Père Yakouba; last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...