Word: spreads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Parkes Cadman, radio preacher, was dragged in: "The people that hire Dr. Cadman to spread his [pacifist] stuff over the country don't tell him what to say." From Manhattan. Dr. Cadman issued a verbose reply...
...State's attorney appealed the case, to learn what he should do about the suits against the textbook commissioners and the 25 publishers. Meanwhile Mr. Sampson's prosecutors and the publishers reflected on the commercial aspects of the spread of culture...
...their match and stood in her way. One was a slight, wiry lady in a brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else. Suddenly news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries and officials who deserted other matches to watch them finish saw something to remember. They saw Miss Collett play reckless, perfect golf to win the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth...
...Piedmonts, and the American Tobacco Co. with Lucky Strikes. The Lorillard To bacco Co., faced with the heavy expense of introducing Old Golds met the reduction only partially, cutting its price to $6.10. During the intervening months the costs of the feud were heavy and many a rumor spread that an agreement for its termination had been reached. Last week from the Winston-Salem (N. C.) offices of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. came an unexpected telegram that Camels had been boosted to their old price of $6.40. Chesterfields, Piedmonts, and Lucky Strikes followed immediately. From Lorillard came...
...pains" in industry, not many people would regard the situation as a menace to American economic life. It is the shadowy connection with the Communist organizations of Russia that alarms the average American, and he sees in the Marion and Gastonia riots a threat of the violence that may spread to every section of our industrial life. The very thought of red Russian influence in American industry is a bugbear to the normal business...