Word: putting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Beasley, an able executive with a keen foresight into the ills and needs of an industry will ultimately put on a sound basis a big and potent factor in the airplane industry, and I believe will be one of the first to put on a rational plane, the question of private ownership of planes for pleasure flying and private business. In addition to all this, Mr. Beasley himself is decidedly air-minded, and capable of handling a ship himself...
...detest those statistician hounds who put things end to end and stretch them across the country, so don't publish this if it's going to start the pack off in full...
...such family publicity. He considers the private side of his life and of those about him something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...
...What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...
...Government was able to capture some of them without opposition. The rest, however, put up a terrific battle. For an hour machine guns rattled, rifles spat and finally steel met steel in hand to hand fighting...