Word: babson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
Landing in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient, the venerable Roger Babson had something to say to the press. Mr. Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts and prophecies about business, announced last week that so far as the U. S. economy is concerned "The war in Europe is unimportant. . . . the important thing is . . . what is going on in the Orient. Trade always has moved westward...
During Mr. Babson's absence, however, the war undoubtedly made a bigger impression on U. S. trade. For the first time in years many a firm has now more orders than it can fill in three months' full production. By last week U. S. Business had begun to ask "Here's the war boom-but where are the war orders...
Coach Johnny Wood of the Crimson Jayvee basketball team sent in substitute after substitute yesterday afternoon and still the scoring continued against the hapless Babson Institute quintet, the final result being...
...week's end Mr. Babson had agreed that a vote on his representation plan, offered as an amendment to the church's constitution, should be tabled until the 1940 convention. But Mr. Babson still had a few more pearls to cast. In his official address as retiring moderator, he predicted a new revolt in Protestantism, back to primitive Christianity. It will include, said he, "a revolt against a few socialistic or capitalistic delegates, at national church conclaves, passing resolutions pretending to bind the entire membership." But the pearls lay where they fell. The convention proceeded to do just...