Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue, the cry of race prejudice was raised and Revolutionary history was retold to demonstrate Mr. Salomon's right to a monument. It was the Jewish "contention that Mr. Salomon had loaned to Robert Morris much of the money which Mr. Morris later contributed to the Continental Government; it was the Commission's contention that Mr. Salomon's exploits were largely legendary...
...times. It vibrates in harmony with the best thought in America. Those who can read the signs of the present period of national life know that atheism, bigotry, bolshevism, disrespect for law and order and arrogant interference with the liberties of the individual are the evils which right-minded citizens must combat. If the members of this order practice what they preach we constitute the organized force best prepared to battle against these un-American tendencies...
...business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes the society influenza and marries the woman, who certainly did right by him. Although film followers will recall that Blanche Sweet belongs to an early cinema epoch, she shows no signs of weakening...
...Champion du monde (of the world) he was anything but, having demonstrated very little except that Mr. Wills is a total anachronism. Josef Paul Cukoschay (Jack Sharkey), Boston sailor, demonstrated the same thing some months ago (TIME, Oct. 25). At that time, all that Mr. Sharkey won was the right to meet Mike McTigue (TIME, March 14); from whom he won the right to meet his fellow Bostonian, Edward James Maloney; from whom he won the right to meet onetime Champion Jack Dempsey; from whom, last week, he was getting ready to try to win the right to meet Gene...
...that gesture was a slap, last week's was a fisticuff. The Soviets last week granted to Standard Oil interests right to sell Russian oil for which British companies, notably Royal Dutch-Shell, had long been striving. The Standard Oil rights included: 1) two years' monopoly of selling Russian oil in Egypt; 2) 500,000 tons of raw naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha...