Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the campaign proper, as a sort of Master Mind, he was out of public sight in offices across the street from national headquarters where wise Democrats sought him out for advice. He and he alone can get directly and instantly to the President-elect...
...Health, But that did not settle the question about keeping healthy & wise. Professor Henry Clapp Sherman of Columbia University settled that point. Babies are born with sufficient iron and copper in their blood and livers to keep going for quite a while. But calcium, which babies need for bones, they must get from mother's or a cow's milk. If a baby takes too much calcium from its mother. she must replenish her supply by eating calcium-bearing foods. Otherwise her teeth may decay, her bones ache, her resistance to disease decline. Thus calcium (lime) is the mineral which...
...PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH...
...State. New Jersey retaliated by closing its borders to all Pennsylvania trucks and buses, whether operated for hire or privately used. While Governor Gifford Pinchot was maintaining in Harrisburg that "Pennsylvania was losing very extensively because trucks from other States were using up our roads . . . the law is a wise one," one after another, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and New York automatically cancelled their reciprocal license agreements with Pennsylvania and hired Pennsylvania motor transport was banned from their highways. Hundreds of tons of fruit & vegetables had rotted around Pennsylvania's borders by the time a truce between...
...remarkable that Pundit Lippmann should flay the Herald Tribune's candidate. The paper engaged him, as a wise observer and able writer, with the understanding that he should enjoy freedom of expression. Month ago he plumped publicly for Roosevelt. But seldom had he been so sharp-spoken and the obvious deletions, plus the editor's note, started a rumor through Manhattan newsrooms that Walter Lippmann had been censored by Publisher & Mrs. Ogden Reid. Newsmen recalled the case of Colyumist Heywood Broun who was fired from the late World, when Lippmann was editor, for writing too bitterly about...