Word: suggesters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pittsburgh to protest in person. The Leech telegram: "Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, and I join in protest to the American Chemical Society against the use of its agency in aiding the premature and unethical exploitation of this proprietary. . . . May we suggest that proper officials remove [Dr. Seydel's speech] from program because of unwarranted and harmful publicity...
...suggest that we need not go back so far, as President William Howard Taft and Governor Woodrow Wilson met in the Copley Plaza hotel, Boston, less than two months before election day 1912. The President had come to speak at the banquet of the Congress of International Chambers of Commerce. Candidate Wilson was touring New England at the end of his campaign, and had ended his day at the same hotel. Along with other newspapermen I hoped for a meeting of the two candidates, and, those of us in the Wilson group, sought the Governor's permission to bring...
...bring Drought to his doorstep was Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins who sought permission to increase the number of farmers on drought relief from 90,000 to 150,000. Next to bring Drought to his doorstep were Louis J. Taber and Fred Freestone of the National Grange, who arrived to suggest a system of crop insurance which they had already presented to Alf Landon, who promised it favorable consideration. Franklin Roosevelt promised no less. As for more immediate Drought problems, the President laid out in detail his trip to confer with officials of 16 Drought States, beginning this week at Bismarck...
...Some pretty good men are on the street." . . . "You can't convict a million dollars." Sometimes Sandburg brings in more conventional proverbs to contrast with nuggets of contemporary wisdom. Sometimes he merely lists ordinary, everyday greetings to suggest the breezy friendliness of his hero: Where you been so long? What good wind blew you in? These themes are interspaced with examples of native folklore that range from Ford jokes to the classic rural replies to smart city salesmen, from variations on "No Credit" signs to examples of the tall tales of Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. The first sections...
...assistant in the Works Progress Administration's $120,000,000 airport and airway development program, Mrs. Omlie hired a corps of famed female flyers,* sent them out to get local sponsors to suggest air markers, share their expense. So far, Mrs. Omlie's aides have spent $340,000. Expenditure of some $780,000 more has been authorized. Says Mrs. Omlie: "This is the first time that the Government has spent money in helping the private airplane owner...