Word: woole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cushing. Mr. Hunneman recalled that "for many years it has been the practice of your party and mine to give secretly to large contributors to campaign funds the assurance as to what policies would be put into effect." Mr. Hunneman recalled that William Howard Taft promised revision of the wool tariff in 1908, that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers...
...woolen and worsted weavers must cut their business close to demand; that leaves much machinery idle and forbids profitable increase of prices. Particularly hard hit in this way have been the three great U. S. woolen goods fabricators-American Woolen Co., Arlington Mills, Botany Consolidated Mills. The newly formed Wool Institute has not so far been able to help...
Last week when the season opened, Lauri-Volpi sang Rhadames in Aida. The smart citizens of Buenos Aires cheered the performance; one fat dealer in sheep's wool as he got into his Hispano-Suiza was heard to gurgle his approval in unquotable terms...
...dazzle the mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output...
Three weeks after the event, Mr. Brand issued an alibi (see LETTERS). He had "gone over" his back files. "I find," he said, "that I was advocating, as a means of agricultural relief, the production of sugar and wool in the United States that we were purchasing abroad." Mr. Hoover said something to the same effect at that time so Mr. Brand thought Mr. Hoover would make the best Secretary of Agriculture possible. Later, he discovered that Mr. Hoover's ideas did not coincide with his own. "So my hopes for Mr. Hoover were blasted," said Mr. Brand...