Word: label
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...union label is prominently displayed between these declarations. The journal is normally eight pages, newspaper size. Its editorial content may be indicated by the three articles which were spread across the entire upper part of the front page of an issue which came out when there was agitation for calling a special session of the legislature to investigate charges that money had been lavishly, not to say wastefully, spent by the State Road Commission, said to have been picked and dominated by James E. Ferguson. Of the seven columns, two were given to statements by several state legislators arguing that...
...expect to work in the future, as I have in the past, for those things in government that I believe to be right, and I will support them regardless of whether they originate with Democrats, Republicans, Progressives or men bearing any other party label...
...stands a very old airplane with a stern but bedraggled air, like that of a dead buzzard stuffed by an inexpert taxidermist. It was built by Inventor S. P. Langley in 1903, is said to have once wobbled in the ether over the Potomac River. On it is a label: "The first man-carrying airplane in the world capable of sustained flight...
Orville Wright, unimpressed by the chauvinistic claims made for this patriarchal buzzard brought forward some weeks ago, certain criticisms of the label (TIME, May 11). Its statement was true, he declared, except for the fact that the Langley plane had never been capable of rising from the ground for longer than five seconds...
Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...