Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said Alexis aristocratically: "If the terms suit us, we give concessions; if they don't, we don't. We now scrutinize the suitability of the terms much more severely than before. Our demands are higher...
Attorney General Stone, in his first important act since taking office, instituted a suit of magnitude. He attacked a monster group-some 50 Standard Oil and other oil companies, charging restraint of trade under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He also asked for injunctions to stop alleged illegal procedure. The case was brought in regard to the "cracking" process for petroleum. In refining crude oil, gasoline is taken off by distillation. But on account of the great demand for gasoline, more of it is obtained by subjecting the residue of heavier oil to heat and pressure. Under this pressure, some...
Quite contrary to the charge that the Administration was planning to use the suit for political purposes, was a suggestion of which The New York World (Democratic) made first page material: that the Pure Oil Co., of which Beman G. Dawes is President, is a secondary defendant. Beman G. is a brother of Charles G. Dawes,* the Republican candidate for Vice President, and the World added that the latter is "commonly believed to be a heavy stockholder." The World admitted, near the end of the article, that this supposition was "not of public record." At any rate, the Department...
...banquet table than the approval of a dingy hall full of workingmen." At York, he is reported as having said to his Labor audience : " 'They say I have fallen into bad habits. See that you don't. I should forget that I had a ceremonial suit, if I were not reminded of it by the press. We may be able to put on a funny sort of something sometimes; what does it matter? We put it on without thinking about it and put it away without troubling about it. When we lose our snobbery, our vulgarity, then...
...blackest and boldest of headlines?a real rival in that respect for Wm. R. Hearst. It is a paper which carries on its front page stories of "Bomb's Deadly Work," "Fleeing Heat, Dies as He Falls Off Roof on East Side," "Divorcée's Navy Romance Revealed in Suit," "Pair Captured After Chase in Narcotic Theft," "General Wood's Kin Three Days in Sea." It carries three snappy pages of sport news. Its foreign news (when it can be found) tells: "Ten Men Killed in Moroccan War," "Boy Worker Locked in Bank" (Eng.), "Priest's Auto in Accident...