Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quick resale of stocks is not any more gambling than the purchase and quick resale of lots. . . . The amount of margin upon which a man trades does not determine the gambling element. ... A man can buy stock for a small cash payment . . . and there is no reason to call him a gambler because he sells the stock shortly after at a profit. ... If the trading in stocks . . . is immoral, then the church should eliminate from her membership the heads of stock exchange houses, clerks, bookkeepers . . . the men and women who buy and sell stock...
...seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last fall. "Motor," gasped Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said he would...
...Plans call for a quadrangular development containing a new hotel, community building (postoffice, town hall, library), blocks of shops, a plaza, a park. Estimated cost: $10,000,000. President of the improvement corporation is Edgar Palmer, potent townsman, Princeton alumnus (1903), board chairman of New Jersey Zinc Co., financier (realty, railroads, insurance, public utilities...
Most modernly civilized part of Africa is the area of British dominion. South Africa. Native whites call themselves Afrikanders. Their language is Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part...
...longer foster. More than 70 professors, preachers and elders attended. Prominent of course were Princeton faculty conservatives. Dr. John Gresham Macheru veteran of Princeton's doctrinal wars, made the opening address, said: "The old Princeton under this new board is doomed." Prof. Robert Dick Wilson told of the call from students for a school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following subjects at the new school...