Word: systemic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers think agriculture is sick. Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, however, assured us the entire country is prosperous. If this species of absent treatment were effective, everybody would be happy." Senator Reed began to talk about the Federal Reserve Act; said he: "The credit for this great banking system must be given largely to Senator Glass and to Woodrow Wilson. ... I did some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised by others." At this the farmers nodded sagely. Not so the pressmen. They, more canny critics, immediately began to reflect upon Mr. Reed's latest remark...
What has been called "the cheerful insanity of Chicago politics" last fortnight achieved a convulsion that had long been promised. Mayor William Hale Thompson obtained the suspension of William McAndrew, superintendent of Chicago's public school system...
...promise did not actually come true because Mr. McAndrew, though suspended, has yet to be tried. And none is more eager for his trial than himself. He will be defended by Lawyer Angus Roy Shannon, author of the Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school...
Transatlantic Television. Long-haired John L. Baird, young perfecter of television, announced that he had arranged with British postal authorities to attempt transmission of visual impressions across the Atlantic on the Government radio system. He added that he and the Columbia Graphophone Co. had succeeded in translating the electrical impulses or television into impressions on a phonograph record, whence they can be retranslated, making sights as well as sounds issue from the most modern version of a "music...
General Manager Leo M. Rumeley of General Motors last week wished to show all G. M. C. foreign dealers the photograph of the season's new-model Cadillac. Aware of current communication methods, he despatched a messenger with a picture from Detroit to Cleveland. In Cleveland the Bell System put the picture on its telephoto wires to Manhattan and to San Francisco...