Word: annoyances
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among other things, Mr. Ford is a Hebrew-phobe. He employs no Jews in his mighty industries; he resents the grip that they have on certain U. S. businesses. And so it was natural that one of the early functions of the Dearborn Independent was to annoy the Semitic. In 1924 and 1925, 20 articles written by Newspaperman Harry Dunn, under the pseudonym Robert Morgan, appeared on the subject: "Jewish Exploitation of Farmers' Organizations." The first article said flatly: "A band of Jew bankers, lawyers, advertising agencies, fruit packers, produce buyers, professional office managers and bookkeeping experts...
...suffered, writhed and dreamed. Perhaps he visioned a spunky newsboy laughing in spite of the stench sf the Union Stock Yards, a lumber shover on a schooner coming up; the Chicago River, a sidewalk inspector with ambition, an alderman whose jokes were understandable, a county treasurer who did not annoy the people, a sheriff-elect who was dying...
This was elementary physics. Was it possible that Georges Claude had become senile, to annoy the august Academy of Science with piffle? Steam might operate a turbine at the Equator. But there would need be some cooling device to condense the spent steam. Where would he get ice, or cool drafts, in the tropics? He had the answer ready...
...ends-only with the Golden Gate. Even Hollywood, the alabaster Hollywood, has its conventional citizens, men who wear something besides chaps or full dress, women who do not appreciate the potentialities of a tiger skin. Like amusing children, the movies are a national pet; like amusing children, they often annoy the neighbors...
...United States today," her people who "have a child's heart and love to play and sing," and then, with a flourishing bow across the Atlantic, he said: "America has got the strongest President since Lincoln, and he will be re-elected on a Dry ticket, which will annoy the Wets more than ever...