Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During several trips to Paris, the writer has been often annoyed, and frequently amused at what seems to be a favorite indoor sport of the French people. At meal times in the restaurants and hotels at table, it seems to be a universal custom for some Frenchman to blow a...
Another problem (recited by Dr. Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in...
On Armistice Day Major Hurley did some voluntary reconnaissance near Louppy under heavy enemy fire which won him a silver star citation.
Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for...
Fifteen minutes later, still grinning grimly, he arose and went limping out of the chamber, a Senator-reject from Pennsylvania. In the interval the Senate had refused (58 to 22) to accept him as a member because he and his friends had spent $785,000 to win the Republican nomination...