Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Balinese ethics are dictated by the benefit or harm that would affect the community as a whole if certain acts were performed. Private behavior which does not injure other members of the community is regarded with complete indifference. Geoffrey Gorer thinks that the West has nothing to teach the East except the use of labor-saving machinery, that the East has a great mission in teaching the Wrest the rudiments of good manners...
...Officer members of the Olympic party disgraced themselves during a performance given for the benefit of the athletes. I refer to the mock marriage and mock trial ... so shocking that many athletes walked out of the social hall. . . . The trial was presided over by Gustavus T. Kirby who so handled the dialog having to do with marital situations that it was open to questionable interpretations and altogether unsuitable for youthful ears...
...dolefully, pointed to his throat, remarked: "No lump." There was plenty of sentiment in last week's deal which would appeal to stock holders, whose approval must be obtained before any of the plans bear fruit. Part & parcel of the financial proposals are straight business agreements wrhich will benefit all three companies. The when & how of these plans were as vague as Joe Schenck's financial details but the eventual effects were fairly clear. Gaumont will scrap its U. S. distributing organization at a saving of at least $500,000 annually. In return M-G-M and Twentieth...
...President. Last week he addressed to Tammany's Independence Day pow-wow a letter in which he declared: "In this day, as in the days of its founding, the Society of Tammany is on the side of popular rights and against the exploitation of the many for the benefit of a favored...
...Bonus money. Economists are beginning to believe that indirect Bonus influences will eventually be greater than the effects of immediate spending. Even if a large proportion of the $1,900,000,000 Bonus bonds are not cashed, their possession will induce freer spending of regular income. Industries which will benefit most are clothing, building, radio, refrigerators, electric appliances, automobiles...