Word: concern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Womanhandled. When Gloria Swanson was making Manhandled at the Famous Players studio, some one suggested that "Woman-handled" would be a good title for a picture. Certain members of the concern held up their hands in tasteful protest but the notion persisted. This is the picture and indeed much better than the title deserves. It is a light comedy about steam heat and tennis courts on the erstwhile supposedly primitive ranches of the West. Richard Dix, good actor, is the star...
...special corps of 200 accountants had told Mr. Dillon that the N. C. R. Co. concern possessed assets of 41 millions, exclusive of patent rights which were nominally set at $1, and of good will which was not reckoned at all; that it had an annual business of 40 millions (85% of the world's cash register orders); that its 900,000 shares of common stock profited $40.69 per share last year after 7% had been paid on 9½ millions worth of preferred; that there was no funded debt...
...None could dress with more originality and abandon than she, though clothes gave her comparatively little concern, and she was forever flinging off her hat as soon as she reached a place where she could throw...
Full and crystal-clear consideration traces the progressive relationship of a constitution "made in the days of the village blacksmith" to the titanic industry of our own age. But obviously the section on foreign relations most deeply engages the author's mind and heart. A source of serious concern to him is the ability of the House of Representatives by its revenue powers, of the Senate by its treaty powers, of the Supreme Court in judicial review, and of the several states by independent local action, to delay or nullify careful negotiations with the rest of the human race...
...chief assets. Barton was a telegraph operator, who put $400 into the business by mortgaging his mother's house. In 1872 the original partnership of Gray & Barton reorganized as the Western Electric Manufacturing Co. In 1881 this was re-christened the Western Electric Co. In 1882 the concern began manufacturing telephone equipment for the Bell system...