Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signing took ten minutes...
When rain drove Nominee and Notification indoors at Albany, the crowd pressed up to the Assembly Chamber doors to try for seats. Nine out of ten had to stay outside and hear the speeches through, the amplifiers. Among those who stayed outside was a tall, familiar figure with the crutches it has had to use for the past several years, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the friend and believer who placed Candidate Smith in nomination in 1920, 1924, 1928. With Mrs. Roosevelt, he sat on the outdoor platform, huddled from the rain under a canopy of State Troopers' waterproof coats...
...paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about ten votes, or 100 per precinct. The cost between 7½ and 15 million dollars for all 150,000 precincts, is recorded locally as "current expenses" or is never recorded...
...Manhattan offices of the Guaranty Trust Co., last week, Delegate Pancake conferred with fellow delegates, viewed with alarm a proposed change in cable rates. Up for discussion at Brussels will be the "Cortina report," recommending that code words be limited to five letters instead of ten, the cost of sending a 5-letter word to be 68% of the present 10-letter rate. Thus Mr. Pancake's hypothetical cable would read
Chain Stores. To the McCrory Stores Corp., operating 199 stores (Five and Ten Cent), came the 1-year-old Swingle's 5 Cent to $1 Stores, Inc., with 15 stores; 1927 sales...