Word: warren
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this sentiment. Likewise, the evolution law almost passed a few years ago. However, the motto is a criterion of an ignorance-ridden state. It is the 47th state in illiteracy-only one state being lower in the scales. ...* WARREN WHEELER...
Their first contract came from S. D. Warren & Co., papermakers. It was secured partly through an ingenious stratagem of Employe Cartwright. At that time typewriters were extremely scarce and expensive, far beyond the means of the young firm. Nevertheless, when Paperman Warren came to Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered...
...next large Stone & Webster contract was a second job for Paperman Warren, to build a power plant that would carry 1,000 h.p. for seven miles at 1,000 volts. Such a plant seemed then a great project, though since that time Stone & Webster have constructed such power plants as that of Southern California Edison, which carries 250,000 h.p. for 250 miles at 250,000 volts...
...rich sheep rancher, Republican Senator Warren was dubbed "the greatest shepherd since Abraham" because of his interest in a high wool tariff. His friends have now twisted this sarcastic epithet around to refer, in complimentary manner, to his legislative skill in herding bills through to passage. For the past eight years he has been chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a post largely honorary since the House Appropriations Committee really does the hard work of framing supply bills...
...Other Warren distinctions: As the Senate's only Civil War veteran, he holds the Congressional Medal of Honor. The highest peak in Wyoming (13,725 ft. in Wind River Range) was named Mount Warren for him. His influence was largely responsible for the selection of his son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, to command...