Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind the plan to break up Muscle Shoals and dispose of it piecemeal. . . . This plan was formed by John W. Weeks for the purpose, as he thought, of injuring Henry Ford. . . . But the injury has shot past Henry Ford and has landed on the farmers. . . The only thing I could do at Muscle Shoals which I am not now able to do elsewhere would be to make fertilizer for the farmer. And that is the sole reason why John W. Weeks and scores of corporation lawyers have exerted their cunning to prevent me. ... It would be well worth while...
Said Governor Pinchot, who has Presidential aspirations: " The thing that has protected the liquor criminal is politics. . . . The Federal Enforcement Service . . . will never be worth its salt until it is taken wholly out of politics. . . The President should take personal charge. Not only has the political hamstringing of the Federal Enforcement Service had its seat in Washington, but it is notorious that disobedience of the Eighteenth Amendment has been flagrant in the Capital City...
...Bureau plan is designed to establish a common terminology in every industry. The trades that have joined hands with the Bureau are now using terms that always mean the same thing...
...American audience in its rative habitat, it is not a homogeneous thing. For instance, lines and costumes which are all right in New York are far from all right in Boston. In fact the New York audience is a thing apart. Managers who have carried new plays successfully through preliminaries in Chicago or San Francisco tremble in their boots before the first night in New York. It could not be otherwise for cities which are famished for plays cannot be chooses, while the inhabitants of New York with forty productions of all kinds competing for their favor naturally assume...
...stand on end; how Walter Gilbert and Edward Dauney, who are Mr. Paradee and the lawyer, respectively, manage to conceal their agony, and in fact, actually seem to enjoy her fooleries is miraculous. Everything must be forgiven, however, for Mr. Kent's sake. He is not the only good thing about "Rose Briar" by a long shot, but he is certainly the best...