Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted without debate or a record vote a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to turn over to the Senate all data in its files against the Aluminum Co. of America (data previously denied to the Department of Justice). (TIME...
...prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many years' standing, devoted first to temperance and then to prohibition, last week decided to throw over prohibition and return to temperanceroclaimed a new hero, the Rev. Dr. James Empringham, Secretary of the society...
...long adherents to their simple, direct, Bible creed. They give their mites to charities, schools and missions. Their preachers are poorly paid, as are those in general of every creed and religion. Their pastors must work, and willingly, in professions and trades. But their calloused fingers can gently, reverently turn the Bible's pages. Of their donations: "The Northern Baptists seem to be just as stingy [as the Southern...
...riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger of Pianist Stock's right hand. . . . The finger had to be amputated...
...spite of his soothing message, the President seems a bit perturbed over the turn events have taken in the past few months. He fears that blunt Democratic remarks concerning the aluminum trust, the tariff commission, and the Mitchell furbelow may operate against a Republican victory. To offset the pernicious effect of these unpleasant criticisms, the president makes a political parade of virtue. And the fanfare on either side is the result of a seasonal activity which breaks out in years of Congressional elections. Were it not for the autumnal threat, President Coolidge might have continued his policy of silent disregard...