Word: vice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Aged 60, circumspect, alert, "regular" pince-nezzed, he had done well as a Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
...outstanding feature of the opening address of Governor-General Henry L. Stimson to the Philippine Legislature, published last week by the U. S. War Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion...
...record . . . "he repeatedly put his foot on the brass rail and blew the foam off the glass . . . horrible vice conditions . . . nullify . . . betrayal...
...advertising, newspaper and magazines were still the best mediums for comprehensive campaigns; next to newspapers, magazines. On the last day of their convention, they selected Minneapolis, after many words in favor of Berlin, as the scene of next year's convention; and they unanimously elected Charles Clark Younggreen, vice president & general manager of the Milwaukee advertising firm of Klau-VanPietersom-Dunlap-Younggreen, Inc., as president of the International Advertising Association...
...Milwaukee, Charles Younggreen is a social lion as well as a Lion; he belongs to half the clubs in the state and is vice commander of his post of the American Legion. When Milwaukee plans a welcome, as to an aviator, Charles Younggreen superintends it with pride and efficiency; "Milwaukee's Grover Whalen" is a sobriquet of which he is proud. His house is a show place; his wife is a charming woman; he plays bad golf very well; he has lots of money and lots...