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Word: commoner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tyranny and oppression have flourished, decayed and perished. The British Empire has shown that the lessons of the fate of empires have not been lost. We have loosened the formal bonds of unity with the great dominions. . . . When we meet together in equal freedom we are united by common allegiance to the Crown. In that model unity lies our strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Day | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

...Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things?even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Brothers v. Brothers | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

When, last week, Knox Hat Co., Inc., announced an offering* of no par, non-voting common at $140 a share, a few U. S. hat wearers remembered the time (1917) when Knox shares were selling at $6. That was during a reorganization period following the retirement (1913) of Colonel Edward M. Knox, son of Founder Charles Knox, and before the arrival of the present management, which, under the leadership of President F. H. Montgomery, showed net earnings in 1928 of $859,997, or $10.10 a share on common stock. Acquiring Dunlap & Co. (1919), Long's Hat Stores Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hats & Hatters | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...often friended Pennsylvania's U. S. Senator-suspect William Scott Vare, and to Albert M. Greenfield, a realtor recently elected to the Board of Trustees. Realtor Greenfield has been a large contributor to Vare election funds. Trustees of Girard are elected by the Judges of the Common Pleas Court, whom Senator-suspect Vare reputedly controls. If the Judges should have occasion to elect more Vare men to be Girard trustees, what, wondered the alarmed alumni, might happen to the huge Girard endowment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Taft on Feather-Heads | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

...Consolidated Oil Corp., who are solvent to the extent of $30 or more, can become Sinclair stockholders at the $30-per-share figure (Sinclair closed last week at 38). The employes' stock plan, approved at last week's annual corporation meeting, set aside 225,000 shares of common stock, 75,000 shares of which are offered during the present year. Another 75,000 will be offered next year and the final 75,000 in 1931. These future shares will be priced at 10% less than the average Stock Exchange price for the last three months of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Employes' Stock | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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