Word: acted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relation to that corporation as a trustee does to the property he has in trust. A director, therefore, should make no contracts with any other directors and the corporation except such as will bear the closest scrutiny, and then only after competitive bidding. The rigidness of the Federal Corporation Act makes it a paramount necessity for a director to carefully consider every step he takes and first of all assure himself that he is in no way guilty of exceeding the charter power or of transgressing the laws of the Federal authorities...
...course of his talk Mr. Buckland discussed the Federal Corporation Act and pointed out its significance in regard to corporation directors. One of the provisions virtually declares that "the labor of a human being is not a commodity of commerce." "Combinations of laborers to raise wages are lawful; combinations of organizations to lower wages are unlawful. Why should labor organizations be excluded from the jurisdiction of interstate law and directors of corporations included?" Many other provisions seem palpably unfair, but time will tell whether the acts of the Federal Trade Commission will in the end be beneficial to the country...
...dinner to be given by the Harvard Club of Boston in honor of the football eleven will be held at the Copley-Plaza, Boston, this evening at 7 o'clock. Dean Briggs will act as toastmaster for the occasion. The speakers will be ex-Captain C. E. Brickley '15, ex-Acting Captain W. H. Trumbull, Jr., '15, Captain E. W. Mahan '16, and Coach Haughton, who will illustrate his talk with motion pictures and stereopticon views of the Yale game...
...acting is smooth and even, without particular stars, rather suggesting stock company work in the individuality of the minor parts. Mrs. Tighe is the most natural and confident, and therefore the most convincing. Miss Feeley's restlessness in the first act may be due to the great speed with which things happen to her--she comes back from dinner almost before she starts--, for in the later acts she seems entirely at ease. Mr. Walker does well with a part which the author could make less difficult by deciding whether or not it is to be taken seriously; Mr. Manson...
...following men have been appointed to act on the Junior Dance Committee: Wells Blanchard, of Concord, chairman; Henry Gilman Nichols, of Boston; Harcourt Amory, Jr., of Boston; Donald Clarke Watson, of Milton; Frederic Stevens Allen, of Harrison, N. Y.; Wingate Rollins, of West Roxbury; William John Bingham, of Lawrence; Richard Cary Curtis of Boston; Clifford Frederick Farrington, of Cambridge; E. Howell Foreman, of Atlanta, Ga.; William Cowper Boyden, Jr., of Winnetka, Ill.; Henry Lamb Nash, of Newton, and Philip Lowry, of Erie...