Word: sureness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce? The nearest she came was John T. Davis4 and he moved out soon as he grew up. He goes back there to vote, sure. Why not spend a little carfare for the sake of lining up several thousand votes out of sheer sentiment? But what big men has West Virgina got? Senator So-and-so, I suppose, and Senator Whozis. I never heard of them. They can't stack up against Fess and Willis...
...more effectively with state banks. 2) That the Federal Reserve Banks' charter, which expires in 1934, be renewed for an "indeterminate" period. This is the rider. It puts the positive stamp of approval of a Republican administration on the greatest domestic achievement of the Wilson regime. To be sure, it would be possible for any Congress after 1934 to abolish the Federal Reserve system, but what Congress would dare and what President would permit the destruction of a well-tested stabilizer of banking? The Federal Reserve system, as many a banker will agree, is the U.S.'s most...
...quiet erect gentleman of 73. No one had paid much attention to him when he left his ship at Cristobal, but along the railway, at various stops, men who had worked 20 years or more in the Canal Zone, looked at him intently, approached, looked again to make sure, and then said, with great respect: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it?" Or, "I don't s'pose you remember me, Mr. Stevens, but I'm. . . ." One of the oldtimers went to the telephone and rang up Balboa. When his train reached Balboa, John F. Stevens, onetime chief...
...Sure and its a broth of a fine Lampoon" stated Officer O'---thought to be connected with the Cambridge Police Force. He was speaking of Lampy's Automobile number, so called for no apparent reason...
...Harvard University as such through its Student Council to support an avowardly Christian programme. On the other hand it cannot be questioned that the present world situation makes an appeal to Christian students for the furtherance of the aims of the S. F. F. entirely justified. I feel sure that there are many in Harvard University who will lend their support to this attempt to foster "some sort of intelligent cooperation and understanding" among the students of the world on this basis...