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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion as it is our knowledge that it is rarely necessary to call the sailor at all-just the sounding of "mess gear" or "pay call" on the bugle being...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue in the Wilson Administration. Hence, the Government wants Mr. Couzens, the Dodge descendants and a half dozen others to dig into their pockets and send back $34,277,253.48 to the U. S. Treasury. The defense attorneys argue that the Government ought to keep its word, having once placed an estimate on their clients' profits. The public will be deprived of some illuminating bits of finance by the agreement of both sides not to discuss the earnings of the Ford Motor Co. from its humble birth in 1903 until its prodigious manhood...
...Later, another Premier named Clark appeared and demanded $50,000. "I told him," testified Mr. Gould, " 'You won't get 50 cents.' He said he would legislate me out of the railroad business and he did. That's the only time he ever had the reputation of keeping his word...
...What?" we shouted, hardly believing our ears. It is getting so, these days, with the baseball scandal and the biographies of George Washington, that you can't believe anything. Our ears are not as righteous as some cars we know. Our incorruptibility, on the other hand, is a by word--or should we say, perhaps, not a buy-word...
...January long distance telephone service will be in commission between Manhattan and London (3,500 miles) over a combination of land lines and wireless waves. The cost will be $25 a minute, with a refund in case static blurs the conversation. Since transatlantic cable rates are 22c a word, this means that the person who can distinctly speak more than 115 words a minute will save money by the new way. But he must talk with a low, steady tone, else his voice will be blurred when carried across the chain of hair-adjusted transmitting machines. Trained elocutionists might...