Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...universities ranging in type and geographical distribution from Yale, Amherst, and Wellesley to Grinnell, Randolph-Macon, and Wabash College. The interviews are brief, honest, and each is brought in to illustrate a specific point. Through them one is able to form a nebulous idea of the state, of thought, word and deed in the average university...
...lying back while his earthly frame is kneaded, Mr. Chief Justice thinks about 1908 in contrast to 1928, it is doubtful that his thought is political. A knowing newsman once said that the Taft bump of political sagacity was really a dent. True though that may be, there are more bumps than dents in the Taft makeup, mental as well as physical, and as he looks back from a double eminence never before achieved in the U. S., it may be that he sees far more than any politician of comparable age would...
...virtually abandoned all hope" of Wisconsin and the Dakotas. Now came Clinton W. Gilbert, seasoned correspondent for the Republican New York Evening Post, with an eye-witness report that Minnesota was "in the balance." Party lines are almost invisible in the Northwest but Correspondent Gilbert thought he could perceive underlying reasons: the low price of wheat, the absence of the religious and social-eligibility issues; the wetness of the cities; Smith's popularity; race feeling; the G. O. P.'s opposition to Senator Shipstead, who seeks re-election as a Farmer-Laborite; the Democrats' shrewdness in withdrawing...
...Japan's representative, Naotaka Sato, maintained that, speaking both for himself and for the Japanese Foreign Office, he thought the Dutchman's suggestion excellent...
...summer, it created the International Envelope Co. and proceeded to figure on a bid. It cut close to $5,000.000 from the existing contract price. Middle West Supply, guessing shrewdly what was in store, also cut deeply, but not enough. International Envelope, with a bid of $15,300,000, thought it had won the guessing contest, since its bid was some half million dollars under its rival...