Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alma Cummings (of the United States) has been dancing since Christmas Day, 1783; has worn out several hundred weight of slippers and orchestras, several million needles and four thousand gramophones, by occasionally eating peanuts. " We are not quite sure of our facts but that is near enough. We now suggest that all of us enter into competition for getting down to our jobs without any more of this infernal nonsense...
...committee concludes that it is all a matter of scholarship--and it proceeds to suggest a raising of entrance requirements on the basis of studies alone. Its ideas in that direction are constructive, and will undoubtedly accomplish their immediate purpose--that of cutting out those who are mentally unfit. The fact that grades are only a partial index of mental capacity is a truism which the committee has been obliged to ignore...
...declaration he made in a speech which was in reality an excoriation of the Republican Party for not having any real issues, for "a want of faith apparently in the willingness of the electorate to follow a bold and determined program." He said, in part: "If I were to suggest the underlying fundamental vice of American politics at this time, I would unhesitatingly declare that it consists in playing the game on too low a standard-far below the level of both the intelligence and patriotism of the voter. . . . Let us give to the country a thorough and fearless program...
...Newberry, declared in a public memorandum that demagogues throughout the country are magnifying the difficulties under which railways are operating. The public is being offered the choice of wage reductions for railway men or increased railway tariffs. Reduction of wages is an obvious saving for railway executives to suggest. " Why," suggested the Senator, " don't they do a little brain work to produce the necessary saving by increased railroad efficiency...
...efficient roads freight locomotives average 77.2 miles of travel a day, but on the 39 largest roads the average is only 63.4 miles. Coal consumption on the most efficient roads is 160 pounds per 1,000 gross ton miles, on the large roads it is 202 pounds. These figures suggest the possibility of economics which Senator Couzens estimates at upwards of $465,000,000 if carried out. The railways have not yet replied as to the practical possibility of putting the suggestions into effect...