Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gentlemen visiting the House of Representatives' Chamber in the Capitol often used to point out a striking, little cripple on crutches, his hair awry, his lips compressed. Obviously, he wanted to talk. Gentlemen would turn to their guide, say curiously, "Who is that man?" And their guide, if well informed, would perhaps answer thus: "Well, he has a name-William David Upshaw-but is commonly known as 'Earnest Willie.' He comes from the Bible-loving, liquor-hating region of Georgia, and like most cripples who do not become incurably bitter, he is an incurable romantic. When...
...Lane, impressed, gave him contracts whereby on each 10,000 acre unit he was to turn over one-tenth of the crop to the Indians without cost. Manhattan bankers backed able Mr. Campbell financially, eventually turned the whole proposition over to him. Today his idea is embodied in the Campbell Farming Corporation, covering some 95,000 acres. This year he cultivated 38,000 acres of wheat, yielding some 500,000 bushels; cultivated 7,000 acres of flax...
Students of politics were intrigued by a clause in the decree providing that each podesta shall be "advised" by a consulta (council), the members of which "will not be elected but appointed by the provincial prefect, in turn appointed by the State. The terms podesta and consulta are borrowed, of course, from the political vocabulary of the Middle Ages, when the small independent communities of Italy were ruled by a podesta who was advised by a consulta representing the workers' guilds. It is Premier Mussolini's announced intent that the new consultas shall similarly represent the Fascist "unions...
...Springfield, Ohio, the Foos Gas Engine Co. announced successful tests with a new Diesel engine designed for use in automobiles. Its striking feature was its ability to turn up 1,200 revolutions per minute. Small single-action Diesels of its type had never before done better than...
...York University. He spoke of the "foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower landing speeds, steeper landing angles...