Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great opportunity of the talking moving picture remains, however, the spread of the Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the hither most parts of the globe. Wherever the talkies go, a new interest in English on the part of the country's youth is a likely result. For the school boys in the far corners of the globe who learn English for the first time from the lips of Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, the language will have a rare attraction sure to make it popular...
Fleishhackers. Prominent, for example, are the Fleishhackers-Brothers Mortimer and Herbert. Lean, reserved, relatively unsocial is Mortimer, president of Anglo-California Trust Co. Sharply contrasted is Herbert, stocky, rumpled, good-mixing president of Anglo & London Paris National Bank. A poker-player, a crap-shooter is Herbert; he plays also a talkative game of mediocre and expensive bridge. He unsuccessfully backed local horseracing and doodlebug enterprises. He once raised 600 species of orchids on a bet. The Fleishhackers have wide interests in oil, rails, utilities, industrials...
...Rockefeller candidate for Board Chairmanship of Standard Oil of Indiana. Once (in 1923) Mr. Kingsbury, taking a cross-continental trip, was shocked to discover waiting for him at every station no less strange a present than a bag of onions. The onion-sender was Herbert Fleishhacker. Soon, at the Anglo & London-Paris National Bank, there arrived a return present from Mr. Kingsbury. The Kingsbury gift consisted of two water-buffaloes, several crates of smaller animals, and a liveried bugler to announce the arrival of the menagerie. Buffaloes, animals, bugler were all sent...
...Fiench language, Anglo-Saxons have added the word "beefsteak."* Happenings of last week made it possible that the U. S. branch of the Anglo-Saxon family might also add the word "flivver' For Henry Ford was preparing to drive vigorously for the French market and to compete sharply with Citroen, the popular-priced French car which sells at approximately the same price ($1,000) in the French market as the least expensive of the new Fords...
...Morgan hand in a velvet glove which directs a fiscal juggernaut capable of thun dering over mere business brontosauri. Il Magnifico in all his purple pride never had to do with a loan of more than 200 million dollars; but austere, reserved, patrician "Mr. Morgan" quietly arranged the Anglo-French loan of a half-billion dollars in 1915. It is said that the Allies wanted to borrow a round billion at that time; but Mr. Morgan led the British fiscal representative, Lord Reading, into his sanctum, and thoughtfully observed: "Reading, I wouldn't ask a billion if I were...