Word: aright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...street mutter their comment, McGafferty faces a conference of frightened bankers, tries to bully them into a pool. While their conference is going on a group of unemployed, led by a blind man, breaks into the office. McGafferty defies them; the bankers cower. But the blind leader reads McGafferty aright, tells him his destiny is doom. When the intruders are cleared out the conference breaks up in failure; the bankers scuttle away like rats...
...more inured to squeaks than they are? No, this thing must be nipped in the bud before we find Housemasters stealing everyone's furniture for their own apartments! The Vagabond proposes to wave this dirty linen from every housetop in Cambridge until the overweening outrage is set aright and men can again study in Widener with some degree of dignity and confidence...
...read the editorial aright, you advise Freshmen to offer less than they are capable of paying for rooms in the Houses. This seems to me had advice from the standpoint not only of the individual Freshman but of the College as a whole. Since the demand for cheap rooms is greater than the supply, a student who offers less than he can afford increases the chances that he can not be provided for in a House. Insofar as students who can afford to pay higher prices succeed in securing rooms in the lower middle price range, they reduce for their...
Meantime Alemite Corp. had produced another person who was equally determined to set aright the parent company's affairs. Alemite's head since 1925 has been Joseph Edward Otis Jr., son of the chairman of Charles Gates Dawes's old Chicago bank. A baldish, pleasant man of 41 who graduated from Yale in 1916 and spent a few years with Union Carbide, he lives on Chicago's Gold Coast, likes to hunt and fish in Florida. Able Mr. Otis' problem was to get outside representation on Stewart-Warner's board which, with the exception...
...found the names of Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob. Not troubling to learn more, the Press whooped that Al Smith had been caught dabbling his fingers in a stock-market pool. That night Mr. Raskob hopped down to Washington as a voluntary witness to set the Senators aright...