Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passenger list of the Normandie, just before it sailed from Manhattan, a purser spied the name of Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue-&-white feathers. To newshawks, Acee Blue Eagle explained that he was not only a great-grandson of famed Creek Chief William Mclntosh but newly elected head of the art department at Bacone College near Muskogee, Okla. A first-rate tribal artist. Blue Eagle won fourth place in the 1932 Olympic exhibition...
...production last year was 99,000 oz. of gold, 1,300,000 oz. of silver, 37,000,000 Ib. of copper, 49,000,000 Ib. of zinc. Today with copper in world markets about 7? per Ib. and hard to sell at that, the great Whitney promotion market-wise has a somewhat golden appeal. With gold at $35 per oz. nearly one half of its revenues last year were in the yellow metal...
...brief and brilliant period of the New Deal U. S. monetary policy slipped out of the hands of the President, Congress and Senator Fletcher into the hands of economists. With bankers in disrepute as wise and beneficent directors of U. S. destiny, economists were trotted out to replace them. In regular if rapid rotation economists rode high in the New Deal. What they have accomplished no one will know for years but today one thing is certain: Economists as a class are almost as discredited as bankers in the popular mind...
...Ballot-wise, the House of Commons buzzed with approval last week as Home Secretary Sir John Simon decreed a 20-year jail sentence for Rats's murderer, with possibility of earlier release for good conduct. In gushing editorials Britons were reminded that at the worst Stoner will be only 38 when released "with a full life before...
...throw pop bottles the hardest when you fail. . . . Loud cheers make heroes. Pop bottles make martyrs. ... I knew an old priest once. His hair was white, his face shone. ... I am listed as a famous home-runner, yet beside that obscure priest, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base...