Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...campaign for their emancipation, when Allan Meyer, who had combined the positions of Justice of the Peace and manager of the moving picture theater, took up the standard of Sunday movies and opened his theater. Haled to court and made to pay a fine, he launched a counter-at-tack and set out to show the town what a real blue Sunday was like...
...Institutes have reached a total of 52?from tack and nail makers and dry-milk manufacturers to consulting engineers...
Governor Smith took his time replying to this outburst, but another fight sprang up before the week was out. In the Senate, Indiana's Robinson went off on a wide tack to show that five onetime members of President Wilson's cabinet had later entered the employ of Oilmen Sinclair and Doheny. It was the rankest sort of Senatorial innuendo and included the smirking suggestion that Inquisitor Walsh had been an intimate of Doheny's. Stalwart 38-year-old Senator Tydings of Maryland chewed hard on his chewing gum until Senator Robinson sat down. Then he repeated the Harrison performance...
...facts"; by its "generalizations" about the surplus, which it had no accurate means of estimating; by downright errors in its figures. "Such carelessness," said Secretary Mellon, "is perhaps excusable in a general discussion . . . Certainly it is hard to defend in a report which furnishes the basis for an at- tack on official estimates. . . . This is hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country. . . . After all, it is Congress which will...
Captain Pratt will be the first speaker of the rally, and will be introduced by A. H. O'Neil '28 cheer leader. After songs and cheers Coach Horween will speak, while "Tack" Hardwick, whose "indianizing" was famous in the days of C. E. Brickley '15, will be the last speaker to address the mass meeting...