Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teaed with Mrs. Roosevelt, called on Chief Justice Hughes, was escorted through the Capitol by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (in morning coat), lunched with Acting Secretary Welles at his country estate. Before sailing for home he said glibly: "My visit has been many times worth while...
...newspapers would think it worth-while to run contests among a population group in which only 2% regularly read the papers, but the Commercial Appeal ("Largest Circulation in the South"-now around 126,000) is not out for immediate gains. Its late, revered Publisher Charles Patrick Joseph Mooney, who died in 1926, never tired of preaching that the South would progress only when it taught its farmers to diversify their crops, raise most of their own food. That is the key-note of the Plant-to-Prosper campaign, started in 1933 by the Commercial Appeal now promoted also...
...invoices signed by branch offices in London, Paris, Naples; lenders were the Bank of the Manhattan Co., the Anglo-South American Trust Co., and J. & W. Seligman & Co., some 20 others. But when Philip Musica tried to borrow $370,000 on a bill of lading for $250 worth of hair, the company fell apart. There were no legitimate offices abroad. There was mighty little hair. There was a sudden shortage of Musicas...
While "embezzlement, bribery and politics" have made "a shambles of Oklahoma City's school system," grumbled the Times, schools in comparable Fort Worth are "an educational fairyland." The paper proceeded to rub it in with two pages of photographs and text picturing Fort Worth's Fairyland...
Pointing out that to run its inferior schools Oklahoma City spends $429,000 a year more than Fort Worth, the Times sought to bestir citizens to long-overdue school reforms, cried: "It costs no more to raise a thoroughbred than it does to raise a scrub...