Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate, considering that Mr. Warren had been connected with the "Sugar Trust," rejected him, 41 to 39 (TIME...
...Argument. The opponents of Mr. Warren declared that he had been implicated in improper relations with the "Sugar Trust." Some 20 years ago, he acted as agent for the American Sugar Refining Co. in acquiring stock in a number of Michigan sugar refineries. Lately, he has been President of the Michigan Sugar Refining Co., a consolidation which came out of these companies later. Some years ago, the "Sugar Trust" was investigated by Congress. Senator Reed of Missouri and Senator Walsh had cross-examined Mr. Warren on that occasion. They brought up the former investigation in their speeches. Senator Reed...
...bucket, or gorged into stupefaction by buckwheat cakes and Vermont maple syrup, or lulled to moral insensibility by the melody of waves breaking against the prow of the Mayflower- I trust there are enough left to vote against delivering the Department of Justice into the hands of the Sugar Trust...
Against this, Senator Cummins argued at length that Mr. Warren's connection with the American Sugar Refining Co. had been perfectly proper and only such as he as a lawyer might legitimately undertake, that his connection with that company had ceased nearly 20 years ago and that the fact that he had served well one client was a presumption that he would serve well a new client...
This picture showed the vertical city in the very moment of its demolition by the earthquake (TIME, Mar. 9, SCIENCE) to which the headline so meagrely referred. There was the proud tower of the Woolworth Building cracking like a piece of barley sugar; the Hudson River, a sea of incredible ferocity, was hurling its titanic waters upon a scene wherein buildings of granite, steel, cement, riven at their foundations, toppled insanely upon one another or hurtled separately through the air to melt into the yawning earth amid great ruin, confusion and desolation. The man who beheld this by the kitchen...