Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Common is the belief among Easterners that all Big Business news originates in the East. Proud Californians have long disagreed, pointing for proof to California's many flourishing industries. Last week Californians were given fresh proof of their importance. Dow, Jones & Co., financial news-distributors, publishers of the Wall Street Journal, announced that starting in October a Pacific Coast morning edition of the Journal would be published daily, ''in further recognition of the important financial growth of this territory." With head offices in San Francisco, the new Journal will be distributed to the chief Pacific Coast cities...
...Eugene M. Stevens, Edward F. Swift, F. Edson White. Christened Continental Chicago Corp., and with an initial financing of $65,000,000, the new company was designed for an ultimate capitalization of $500,000,000. Continental-Illinois Co. (the investment affiliate of Continental-Illinois Bank) took 1,000,000 common shares of the 1,750,000 initially offered...
From 12 until 2 o'clock the student advisory committee will keep hours in the Common Rooms of the Freshman dormitories. They will be glad to offer any advice or information which might possibly help the new man in getting oriented. They will continue to keep hours until September...
With the arrival of some 900 Freshmen in Cambridge today the Student Advisory Committee reaches its period of full activity. Several advisors will be in each of the Freshman dormitories for lunch and supper today and will remain in the common rooms after the meals to talk with all first year men who may want advice on any non-scholastic subject...
...born, not made. I remember well a question put to me, in the first year of the school, by one of these skeptical visitors. He was as it happened, a firm believer in West Point methods. "What, apart from mere technical knowledge, readily acquired and honesty, much more common than is sometimes thought are the qualities requisite for success in business?" I told him: "Judgment, courage, and that combining and balancing quality which may be called resourcefulness." Perhaps I might better have used the good old Yankee word "gumption." He smiled at me indulgently. "Well," he said...