Word: anent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since Frank A. Vanderlip, former President of the National City Bank, Manhattan, made his startling speech anent official corruption in Washington, he has been resigning his many directorships one by one. His first retirement from the board of a prominent corporation followed a letter sent to him by J. Horace Harding, requesting his resignation from the Continental Can Co. Mr. Vanderlip went to the board meeting of the Company declaring that he would not resign, yet he did so when he discovered that his fellow-directors unanimously seconded Mr. Harding's request...
...Anent Mark Hanna: "He damned Roosevelt and said: 'I told William McKinley it was a mistake to nominate that wild man at Philadelphia. I asked him if he realized what would happen if he should die. Now, look, that damned cowboy is President of the United States.' . . . He came to my seat at the other end of the car and said: 'That damned cowboy wants me to take supper with him, alone. Damn him!' I said: 'Mark, you are acting like a child. Go and meet him half...
...Anent Senator Henry Cabot Lodge: "Without any preliminary greeting Mr. Lodge said: 'Mr. Hanna, I insist on a positive declaration for a gold-standard plank in the platform.'Hanna looked up and said: ' Who in hell are you ?' Lodge answered: 'Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts.' ' Well, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, you can go plumb to hell. You have nothing to say about it,' replied Mr. Hanna. Lodge said: 'All right, sir, I will make my fight on the floor of the convention.' 'I don't care a damn where you make your fight,' replied Hanna."The chapter...
...Anent Frank A. Vanderlip: "Vanderlip finally went to the National City Bank, and Mr. Stillman told me afterward he showed him his desk, gave him the key to it and said: 'Now find something to do. Your salary will be $15,000 a year.' I have watched many notable careers in my time, but I think Frank Vanderlip's rise from a forty-dollar-a-week reporter in 1897 to the presidency of the greatest bank in the country in 1909 is the most remarkable of forty years' experience...
...Anent Theodore Roosevelt: "Roosevelt sang louder than anyone in the congregation and made the responses in a vigorous voice. Doctor Moerdyke's text was: Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only...