Word: waters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah's answer, in far-away-Tennessee and Kentucky, was to point at Nominee Robinson as an enemy of the protective tariff and to distinguish a conflict between Nominee Smith's and Nominee Robinson's pre-campaign attitudes on water power...
Very few health officers have that ability to improve conditions. They do the established, approved things; they watch water supplies, garbage disposals, food shop sanitation; they quarantine infected persons; they keep vital and epidemological statistics. They are mainly bureaucrats, jobholders. They must be constantly educated in their public health profession; they must be constantly egged to improve the health of their jurisdictions; they must be constantly pestered to teach their people selfhelp. And once a year they get those urgings in a massive dose...
Action follows in the wake of the Mond pilgrimages. As every Britisher knows. Father Ludwig Mond had come to England from Germany with 40,000 marks, a device for making and bottling soda-water, and infinite faith. That faith was somewhat tremulously shared by Fraulein Henrietta Herz, daughter of Father Ludwig's German landlady, who had loaned him her small capital. As a speculative venture, the loan was one of the most successful in history. Fraulein Herz lived to be repaid 200% each year on her advance. Father Ludwig lived to see his British factory a spectacular success...
When Lord Melchett landed in Manhattan, last month, no sophisticated observer believed he would repeat Father Ludwig's career and start building a factory to make soda-water. He had, in a manner of speaking, quite enough factories already. Less than two years ago, he had linked Brunner Mond Co. with Nobel Industries, Inc. (explosives) and British Dyestuffs, Ltd., to create England's largest holding company. As chairman of the board of Imperial Chemical Industries. Ltd. (I. C. I.), he presides over a corporation with an authorized capital of nearly...
Alice Anne Montgomery, Duchess (in her own right) of Buckingham and Chandos, returned from Scotland with her usual autumn armful of water colors, including one of a woman 86 years old which Her Grace calls Grannie in the Moors...