Word: write
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Half Wet, Half Dry. Ohio furnished the strangest political contradiction over Prohibition. Fortnight ago Republicans convened at Columbus to write a platform on which Dry Senator Roscoe Conkling McCulloch could stand for reelection. Delegates from Wet urban centres were frankly frightened at the strength developed by Robert Johns Bulkley, Demo- cratic Senatorial Nominee, a "repeal-and-return" Wet. Maurice Maschke, Cleveland boss, Ohio's Republican National Committeeman, fearful lest Nominee Bulkley should break through in Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown et al and work Republican disaster, urged a Wet referendum plank of sorts upon the convention. But Wet resolutions were quashed...
...land-as U. S. exporters found out to their cost. Hokum. In the well tailored breast pocket of dignified Conservative Bennett is one bulging bit of hokum. Time and again he has accused his Liberal predecessor, ex-Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, of "pusillanimously permitting Washington to write our tariff act!" Matter of fact, under Mr. King, the Canadian tariff was an automatically sliding scale of "countervailing duties"-that is, if the U. S. duty on Canadian cold storage eggs were raised to x cents a dozen, bang would go Canada's duty on U. S. cold storage...
...illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow daughter "who helped me buy a painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...Sills told Louis Sherwin, colyumist of the New York Evening Post, why he left philosophy for acting. Said he: "I went on the stage, you poor ape, because I thought it would give me more leisure to read. . . . What I would rather have done than anything else is write...
Professor Hubbard will write the first section dealing with air ports in relation to city planning. The second part will be written by Dr. McClintock on the administration of air ports; and Mr. Williams will handle the legal problem of air ports...