Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sugar last week became food for Republican thought as the Senate Finance Committee returned to this bitter-sweet subject of tariff-writing. Full committee hearings were held on a plan for a sliding scale of sugar duties proposed by Chairman Reed Smoot as a substitute for the flat rate in the House tariff bill. Senator Smoot spent the weekend with President Hoover at the latter's Shenandoah National Park camp site, returned convinced that the President will approve the bill if his sliding scale is inserted, pondered sugar solemnly with the President...
...adopted a surprising attitude of laissez faire. True, a subcommittee of a subcommittee of a Cabinet subcommittee was established, "to consider and report upon" the situation, but even its chairman. Laborite Rt. Hon. William Graham. President of the Board of Trade, took only perfunctory steps. Inference : Laborite best minds thought, last week, that the Lancashire strikers, if let alone, would win a not too long drawn out victory...
When newly-elected, oldish President Samuel Matthews Vauclain of Philadelphia's gigantic Baldwin Locomotive Works sent $6,965,000 worth of locomotives on credit in July 1919, to the War-torn infant Republic of Poland, his board of directors thought keen level-headed "Sam" Vauclain had forsaken business for his favorite role of philanthropist. They worried. All Europe was financially unbalanced by post War deflation. Poland was still at desperate grips with the Red Army of new Bolshevik Russia. Furthermore, the Baldwin Locomotive Works was at the dangerous stage of turning from Wartime manufactures, productive...
...figuratively rubbed its hands. Its horse-racing season had opened. The fat figure of Harry ("Hot Dog") Stevens seemed to grow fatter as he turned hungry people away from his race track club. The red face of Edward J. Tranter, potent Saratoga auctioneer, seemed to grow redder as he thought of the $5,000,000 worth of horse flesh that had arrived. Names of Whitney. Riddle, Widener, Vanderbilt, Sinclair, dutifully took their places on the "boards" as the week advanced. On shaded streets leading to the track rolled yellow, open-faced hacks with fringed awnings, four-in-hands, victorias, still...
...Editor of Brazil's O Estado de Sao Paulo sat reading a copy of TIME. He thought back to the hectic week when millions of Brazilians were positive that delectable "Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio...