Word: soiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very good business man and that is why he is a poor politician. He gets into the papers with his economic pronouncements, but he has no small talk. Anecdote finds him very stony soil in which to take root; he has none of the blandishments nor much of that kind of acumen necessary to politicians. Many men think that he threw away the best kind of chance for the Presidency...
Until recently the body of Baron von Richthofen has lain buried on French soil at Amiens, where it was interred by his enemies with full military honors on April 21, 1918. Now, however, it is to be brought back to the Fatherland, and on November 20 "all Germany will unite in a vast memorial service...
...desk and I note in your Business & Financy department (Page36) under the caption "Bankers' Convention" a short sketch of the life of Oscar Wells, now President of the American Bankers' Association. Quoting from this sketch : "Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college...
...Philippines, but they reported adverse and unsettled political conditions. He sent them to Mexico and Central America and they reported the same. (He is nevertheless experimenting in Mexico.) He sent one to Liberia and he reported that he had never seen so perfect a place for rubber growing?good soil, good climate, comparative freedom from disease, undeveloped country, cheap land, abundant labor at rates even cheaper than in the Malay Peninsula. That is how the plan originated...
...maze of ratios and figures, the fundamental formula for success stands out vividly, "Be born in Vermont and move to Massachusetts". That this recipe worked in the case of President Coolidge, regardless of the man's nature, is a sure proof of its reliability. Somewhere in the rocky soil of the Green Mountain state lies the secret of prominence as yet unexploited by realtors. Judicious advertising among eugenic-minded people might cause an emigration to Vermont. Using the Independent's statistics as a basis it is not difficult to compute that 519 1-2 couples so enticed would give...