Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good resounding kick?" Until the polls opened no one was sure. Senator Cummins made a last minute radio speech from Washington declaring that he was doing everything he could for the farmers. Six progressive Senators, Norris, Hornell, Frazier Nye, La Follette, Shipstead, issued a manifesto urging Iowa to turn to their political kinsman, Smith Wildman Brookhart...
Senator Borah in the Senate, Representative Newton of Minnesota in the House, began last week suddenly to talk of something that their colleagues had never heard of. They in turn heard of the matter from Richard O. Marsh, a former diplomatic official of the U. S. in Panama, now a rubber expert, and most distinguished as the discoverer of the "white Indians" (TIME, June 30, 1924, SCIENCE...
...provide sanitary and police protection at the company's expense (much of the area has never even been explored); the company has permission to use streams for water power, to install telegraph, telephone and railway lines, build roads, aqueducts and power lines; the company must in turn undertake certain public improvements- building roads, bridges, harbors, etc.; the company will further pay the government as royalty 2% of the gross profits; any dispute arising between the concessionaire and Panama is to be settled by arbitration; diplomatic intervention by a foreign power is specifically forbidden...
...What did A. D. Lasker fail to turn into money...
...multi-millionaire and, having got into politics through the good offices of Will H. Hays and Bernard M. Baruch, was entrusted with 1,442 steel Government ships as chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board. Every thing he laid his hands on (except those ships) turned into money. He has a dynamo of a mind and bovine physical endurance to turn loose upon anything- from a luke warm bean factory to an all-night bridge game- and the current he generates is seldom grounded. Small wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under...