Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other members of the U. S. delegation climbed the long, steep, first class gangway. Lest anyone should attribute pride or ungraciousness to 23 Wall St., Mr. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lamont, walked the common plank with Mrs. Lamont ; and both smilingly endured flashlights. Since Mrs. Owen D. Young is ill in Arizona, her tall, potent husband, Chairman of General Electric Co. and Radio Corp. of America, mounted the Aquitania alone, with his loose, powerful stride...
...ordinary night express from London pulled into smoky Newcastle, H. R. H. emerged from a common-first class sleeping car, accompanied only by Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private secretary. Together they tramped over to the Station Hotel, unwelcomed, unescorted, and there they took a room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak...
...offering of $35,000,000 5% convertible bonds, par 100, was quickly sold (through J. P. Morgan & Co., National City Co., First National Bank, and Guaranty Co.) at a 10-point premium. Later offerings were to include 250,000 shares of preferred and 3,500,000 shares of common stock...
...December slump. Present Montgomery Ward quotations of 141¼ are, of course, for the new issue. †Atlas Powder Co. paid an actual dividend of $20.27, the difference accruing from the sale of holdings in Canadian Industries, Ltd. The $6.30 figure denotes profit from operations alone. **Ward Class "B" Common paid $.71 a share with a high for the year of 241⅝ making a ratio...
...type of examination which finds extreme expression in the English 32 mid-year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge...