Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives considerable space to the story of Henry D. Perky's invention of shredded wheat. From first to last this story shows almost no regard for the facts. Since it is the story which has with small variations been used as advertising for many years, I want to suggest what poor copy these careless fabrications make as compared with the true story...
While the commission studied at Hardin, last week, Wheatgrower Campbell sailed on the Ile de France, to offer verbally his suggestions to the Soviet government and Dictator Josef Stalin. He will suggest the purchase of $100,000 worth of farm machinery, $50,000,000 worth of trucks. He will urge the immediate construction and repair of Soviet roads. Whatever U. S. wheatgrowers may lose from the recovery of Russia's export position will have been gained by U. S. machinery manufacturers...
...rumor has little basis. It was noticed that Dr. Work, widely quoted as the chief exponent of the Hert cause, last week issued a sharp statement deploring "publicity"' given to "conjectures" concerning the Cabinet, and disclaiming any influence in its selection. The doctor was so emphatic as to suggest the inference that he had been scolded again...
...Rhodes Scholars which exists in the minds of their critics. Much obviously unfair criticism has been directed against the Rhodes Scholars for their failure thus for to lead the world, or at least the English-speaking world. To destructive critics who take this position, one would like to suggest that it is just as fair to condemn education in general because educated men recently made such a mess of guiding the world in the ways of peace and civilization. The Rhodes Scholars have the will to serve society as well as they can, but society must be willing...
Andrew Mellon's bookkeeping has been widely and highly praised for seven and three-quarters years. It has also had its detractors. The Mellon estimates of Treasury surplus have been wrong often and far enough to cause some people to suggest that the Secretary of the Treasury's calculations are not purely arithmetic, that they are sometimes tinctured with policy if not politics. In his own party, Mr. Mellon has been frequently flayed by Michigan's Senator Couzens. Democrats in the House have kept up an intermittent fire. Last week, Democrat John Nance Garner of Texas, minority...