Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are 43,500,000 shares of General Motors Common Stock outstanding. How come the paper loss to holders is only $62,500,000 when it drops 14¾ points (TIME, Aug. 26, p. 47)? Come, TIME, charge yourself with a $563,000,000 "bull...
Transcendental Scot. The great commoner at Geneva last week was tall, snowy-haired, ruddy-cheeked Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. He spoke his mind to the Assembly and the World as though he stood in some vast, sky-vaulted International House of Commons. Logical at first, he rose to the passionate climax of a messiah, spoke of "the mystic common tie of nationhoods," showed startlingly how transcendental is his Scotch Socialism...
...There was no racial conflict in what happened in Palestine the other day. It is a situation where the leaders of both races ought to join together and with common voice and with a passion shared equally in both their hearts condemn what was nothing less than an ordinary piece of political crime...
...British troops policing the land, disarming both, Jews and Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...
...Manhattan, officers of mighty Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, whose common stock sells at about $6 a share, smiled over a letter and $4 received from a girl worker in a southern tobacco field. Wrote she: "Will you please sell me as little an intrest or shear in your oil wells as $4 to start with and then take what it makes for me and add to the $4 until it amounts to a fifty dollar share for me. . . . Write me once in a while about it so I would know when I would start drawing money...