Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...print what specific reforms they think are necessary. Someone would perform a great service if they'd get out a definite plan for reform. Then the good man Friday of the New Deal would have something to oppose. As it is, he just smiles safely behind the smoke screen of those reformers who speak in terms of glittering generalities...
...when oil refineries were having trouble buying plant locations because of their smoke and stench, Andrus plowed all his free capital into New Jersey waterfront property. Then he went to old Standard Oil Co. saying: ''The prevailing winds are from the northwest and any smoke will be blown over to the New York side. The people there, being outside of New Jersey, won't be able to do anything about...
With this hope they sat down to draft a platform expounding their economic ideas for recovery. For three days in smoke-filled rooms, under the placating influence of Owen D. Young, they worked to disguise their instinctive distrust of the Roosevelt Administration in language that would promote amity and cooperation. Chief points in their 5,000-word platform...
...Monkey Trial." Presbyterian Fundamentalists tried in vain to halt a move to liberalize their Church's oldest, richest and most conservative theological seminary, at Princeton. Thereupon they abandoned Princeton, founded a seminary of their own which they called Westminster, after the great Confession of their faith. When the smoke of theological battle lifted and public interest had shifted to other quarters, there emerged a new Fundamentalist leader. Plump-cheeked Dr. John Gresham Machen, born 52 years ago in Baltimore, was not another Bryan but he was a peppery, name-calling fighter. Dr. Machen caused the late Dr. Henry...
...four Mills brothers* who make vending machines adorned with plums and cherries, they keep at a safe distance from the sleazy arcades. They sell pin games to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells them to the operator for $40 or $50. The operator takes a machine around to cafes, smoke shops, arcades, where he installs it with the permission of the owner, known as the "location" man. The operator and location man split 50-50 or 60-40 on the proceeds during the life of a machine. A good machine may last six months. After that it loses its popularity...