Word: assets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Idaho, definitely predicted that in ten years the organization would have "one woman Cabinet member ... 25 members of Congress . . . Governors of five states . . . five ordained ministers." Louis Edwin Van Norman, chief business specialist of the U. S. Department of Commerce, declared that sex appeal is no longer a business asset, counseled gravely that Prince Charmings met in the business world "may not be charming. . . may marry another woman . . . may die." Ladylike laughter greeted the report of the educational committee. Over $155,000 had been disbursed during the year. Beneficiaries were 1,000 children-999 girls...
...initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence there were two distinct magneto companies selling the same magnetoes in the same market. American Bosch Corp. sued Robert Bosch Co.. claiming as its most valued asset, exclusive right to the Bosch name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials...
...Boston League of Nations Association, which has offered to support a permanent secretariat, is an asset that will insure a certain amount of stability in the organization. This secretariat with undoubtedly perform the tiresome routine necessary to the mobilization of the various independent college organizations, and will pave the way to well planned, smoothly executed assemblies...
...Radcliffe students are rather an asset, lending a bit of color and life to what would otherwise be a dull atmosphere...
...that Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, had signed a two-year contract to promote boxing bouts with Humbert J. Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy firm will begin with...