Word: reads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week President Hoover read this press headline: MARINES BUILDING CAMP FOR HOOVER. The accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual...
...Read the Bible through...
...Thayer, 65, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-taught Baltimore physician and poet, put a valedictory damnation on legislation which seeks to govern "what we may or may not eat or drink, as to how we may dress, as to our religious beliefs or as to what we may or may not read." In an exhortation which without his rising preamble might have sounded crass at an American Medical Convention, he cried: "This is no longer republican government. It is tyranny. In the long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received...
Chief witness at the meeting was Packard's Alvan Macauley. Cool, self-possessed, quiet, sure of his facts & figures, he read from a typewritten manuscript. To what he said few exceptions were taken. First he talked of U. S. Motors, the whole huge industry. More than 4,000,000 U. S. inhabitants derive an automotive livelihood. The industry consumes 18% of U. S. steel production, 85% of rubber, 74% of plate glass, 60% of leather upholstery, 18% of hardwood lumber, 27% of aluminum, 14% of copper. Last year it was third largest user of railroad equipment, shipped nearly one million...
...more to say when he read adverse criticisms of Night, his newly-unveiled ornament on the London Underground office building. One pundit had observed...