Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bachelor Governor whose father is Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. Defeated was Charles Robert Crisp, 61, long-time Representative whose late father was Speaker of the House 40 years ago. Representative Crisp, whose heroic efforts to balance the Federal Budget with the 1932 Revenue Act won him wide acclaim, was turned down partly on the charge that, friendly to the "Power Trust," he saddled the 3% electricity levy upon consumers. Nominee Russell, brightest of 13 brothers & sisters, proposes, as a sample of statesmanship, to collect the War Debts by severing diplomatic and commercial relations with Europe and forbidding...
...William Woodin had contributed ideas as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street's "White Eagle." Columbia's Professor Raymond Moley of the Roosevelt ''brain trust" had done his share of advising and researching. Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation. The final address represented the composite thought of financiers, managers, employes and investors...
Some 20 little towns on the Illinois, Mississippi and Ohio Rivers were the scenes of a strange visitation last week. With a hoot-toot, toot! the steamboat Cape Girardeau appeared, swung a wide circle on the muddy waters and churned its broad nose upstream against the slippery chocolate bank. Whereupon a brass band aboard the Cape Girardeau let go full blast. And the voice of a choking giant began to croak through amplifiers: "-Good roads-used to peddle milk in Kankakee-in his own ward he got 700 votes against but 25 for his distinguished opponents-your support...
When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...
...California Institute of Technology's intention of building a 200- in. telescope in California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait until the securities which it owns appreciate in income and market value before spending large sums...