Word: concerned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doubleday, Doran, in size ranking second only to Macmillan Co. in the U. S. (In 1929 Macmillan published 736 titles, Doubleday, Doran, 488, all others less.) Dynamic chief executive of this concern is Nelson Doubleday, tall, handsome, smart son of the Founder. His first fame resulted from selling 2,000,000 copies of the Book of Etiquette by mail...
Although the pseudo-modern reader may shudder to find again in print the picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin...
Vacuum Oil Co. began as a manufacturer of harness oil, changed to machine lubricants; famed Brewster Body Co. made carriages; the Studebakers, wagons. By their adaptability, these companies survived. Because of reluctance to change, J. B. Sickles Co., oldest business concern in St. Louis, last week prepared to close its books and pass on to corporate ghost-land...
...dishonesty among those using Widener Many times it has been the custom of instructors to assign reading in large courses with only one copy of the book available. Their co-operation in providing a sufficient number of the works they demand is essential in this consideration. If they would concern themselves to see that there are enough books for their students, then the last vestige of excuse for this petty thievery would be removed...
Culminating a group of toars from various parts of the country, the planes all completed their fours Saturday and after the meeting over New York landed at Valley Stream. Long Island the landing field of the Curtiss Wright Corporation, the concern that was sponsoring the festivities in the evening there was a dinner in New York for the flyers at which time three representatives of the Curtiss organization made speeches concerning the future of aviation in college...