Word: reasoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover: "Very good. I have secured a family schedule which has been filled out in advance and is ready for you. Here it is"?handing Mr. Moran a folded paper?"It is well that the American people know that the census is confidential. There is no special reason for secrecy here, however. I hope you will have everywhere the assistance you deserve. The census is the great stock-taking of American progress...
...author of the "Five & Ten" law, got up to say: "Prohibition has nothing to gain and everything to lose in this poll. . . . It would not be wise for people who believe in Prohibition to take part in it." It did not seem to occur to Dry leaders that one reason why they were losing the Digest poll might be due to the fact that their followers were taking their original advice, abstaining from voting...
...week received from its assistant finance director who had examined the matter, a recommendation to reject the plan of Leonor Fresnel Loree, bushy-bearded Delaware & Hudson R. R. president, to build a 344-mile line across Pennsylvania as the main link in a new New York-Chicago Trunk Line. Reason: public convenience did not necessitate the construction cost of $200,000,000; no new traffic would be created...
...Francisco speculators, badly hurt when Bancitaly collapsed in 1927, had hardly recovered when last fall's crash took place, carrying Kolster through a decline much greater than the average. Perhaps for this reason, plus the fact that there is never a large short interest in San Francisco stocks, trading for the first quarter was approximately 20% below that of the first three months last year. But San Francisco brokers, unperturbed, confidently await full development of "The Empire of the West...
...frequently gets into trouble, is often sued. This happened again fortnight ago, this time after a French lawsuit. The paper was fined 1,000 francs ($39.22), ordered to give 150,000 francs ($5,882.35) to Actor Pierre Meyer. The court had found that Variety had reported that the only reason Actor Meyer was appearing in the Palace Music Hall Revue in Paris was because his wife had financed the show. In addition, slow-spoken, big-nosed Editor Sime Silverman was sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment...