Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast fortunes in grain, machinery, mail-order goods and department store wares, last week rejoiced over two costly filial presents. From John G. Shedd, aging board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., came a third million to add to two he had promised for the construction of a ne plus ultra city aquarium in Grant Park. From Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck & Co.), came three millions outright to restore the old Fine Arts building of World's Fair days in Jackson Park and house within it a museum of industrial progress. Mr. Shedd's increased aquarium gift came...
Ludendorff's Complaint. Unsettled by these developments, famed militarist-Fascist-reactionary General Erich von Ludendorff contributed an article to the ultra-Fascist Deutsche Wochenschau last week in which he bitterly declared: "The War-distress of Germans does not seem to have been sufficiently great, or to have lasted long enough. The German people do not seem to be clever enough as yet to arise and fulfill their destiny. There is spreading among Germans a spineless nonresistance to the Anglo-U. S. scheme for a pan-Dawes Europe in which Germany and perhaps France seem destined to the status...
...name Ford make you think? "To our minds the advertising of the Ford automobile lacked what we consider a very essential quality. . . there was no distinct, quotable theme." Yet the Ford Company has one product about which it cast a distinct atmosphere-an impression of ne plus ultra. Probably more money was spent in advertising the Lincoln car than was spent on any other conveyance in the world's history, considering its estimated market. But for that campaign, a campaign that made Lincoln, Edsel Ford was responsible...
Transparently the Baldwin Cabinet is badly strained over its attitude toward Russia. Ministers Churchill, Joynson-Hicks and Lord Birkenhead, ultra -Conservatives, reputedly did all in their power last week to induce Foreign Minister Chamberlain, Premier Baldwin and other cool heads to "stop selling British pots to Bolshevik cannibals...
...throughout the War and peace negotiations was President of France (1913-20). It was felt last week that if M. Poincaré would consent to assume the portfolio of finance, solidarity would be given at least to the fiscal policy of France. M. Poincaré (Right: ultra-anti-German) signified his willingness to serve under M. Briand (Left: conciliator of Germany...