Word: busied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...
Industries never tire of reciting their greatness. Occasionally the recital is an astonishing reminder of the size and complexity of social and industrial organization. Last week, for example, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. issued a booklet of statistics on its busi- ness-just figures-but large ones: ¶ 20.5 billion telephone conversations a year in the U. S. ¶ 24.5 million telephones in use. ¶ 67.8 million miles of telephone wire strung from pole to pole. ¶ 63% of the world's telephones...
...favor of it are the National Child Labor Committee, the American Federation of Labor, the Federal Council of Churches, the National Educational Association and numerous women's organizations, including the American Association of University Women, the National Council of Catholic Women, the National Council of Jewish Women, teachers, busi- ness and professional women, the National League of Women Voters, the General Federation of Women's Clubs...
Interlocking businesses-the trust idea-has always been a good way of making money. The publishing busi- ness has been witness to it. The Hearst publications are a good example. With several publications under one control, it is only natural that one of them should advertise in another. But the typical tactics of the trust idea in publications are to go beyond the mere exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed...
...Chamber has secured the support of "many important business and banking elements in the U. S. interested in trading with Russia," and "earnestly solicits the cooperation and support of all American busi- ness interests who desire the speedy reconstruction of American-Russian trade without political prejudice or partisanship...