Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaven is kindness and charity, "Minnie" Smith probably looked down and smiled when she saw TIME'S Nov. 17 cover of her son, American Airlines' C. R. Smith. Not only did Minnie [see cut] support and educate a family of seven children, but she also, during the latter part of her life, helped scores of struggling students (including myself) at the University of Texas...
Thank you very much for your excellent article on our brother, C. R. Smith, and American Airlines. You quote C. R. as saying that he "liked" our mother. "Like" is an understatement. Our admiration for her is unbounded...
...this Joke Generation subsist? How was its Life Source of gadgets purveyed? By the J and S book. The J and S Book, as it was affectionately known, was the catalog of the Johnson and Smith Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The Company ran intoi trouble in the frigid climate of the early 'Thirties, when people decided practical jokes were impractical. But there yet remain copies of the catalog, virtually unchanged since the pre-World War I days, which are now of unestimable value...
...Johnson and Smith Catalogue supplied the humor for a nation, for decades. In its crumbling pages (carefully preserved in the famous 'X' cage of famous Widener library) is enough material for a hundred Soc. Rel theses...
...Williams of Michigan, Faubus of Arkansas, and Happy Chandler of Kentucky. Of course, precedent doesn't mean a thing, and Adlai, even without any favorite-son backing from Illinois, could be the choice of a convention unable to decide among a host of mediocrities. The 1924 convention, deadlocked between Smith and McAdoo, turned to Davis, also a corporation lawyer, who had nothing resembling the national fame Stevenson has amassed in two losing tries at the White House...