Word: sales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon in the Wilson days of 1917-20. The system, he implied, dated back to Civil War times and was common to both parties. Democrats demurred that the campaign contribution law had been changed since Wilson days and that the Georgia Republican State Central Committee had refined the illegal sale of patronage to the point of card-indexing its customers. Mr. New was requested to produce more information. The investigation continued...
...ships were authorized for sale, none for charter. Only U. S. bidders need apply. Bids were invited for any of eight different combinations of the ships, one combination requiring the promise to construct two fast new mail ships...
Last week, Publisher Updike announced the sale of the Omaha Bee-News to Publisher Hearst. For the Bee-News, his 25th newspaper, Publisher Hearst paid between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000, and persuaded Henry Justin Allen to come up from Kansas to edit...
...same as he did when he played in Hugo-wiry and compact, jutting jaw, small eyes, his upper lip too short to cover his strong, uneven front teeth. The New York Giants bid a quarter of a million for him. They were told curtly: "Hornsby is not for sale." In his first full year as manager (1926), he brought the Cardinals their first pennant and the World's Championship. St. Louis plastered his picture all over the town. But Hornsby did not like his next contract with the Cardinals, and was traded to the Giants for "Fordham Frankie" Frisch...
...nearly of the right sort as may be." Since then Mr. Martin has written nearly every editorial that appeared in Life. His last words were: "And another thing! When you are out in the shopping district, do you sometimes get a disagreeable sensation of everything being for sale? Well, this present world is rather too much that way. Maybe that is on the way to being mended also." Elmer Davis, 38, succeeds Mr. Martin on Life's editorial page...