Word: conflictingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly young man, but he had been through the War and wanted no more tension; his practice was sufficient and not too exacting. For his most interesting patients medicine could do nothing. Cynthia, who lived just above him, was a young artist of genius who worked out her unhappy conflict into sad clay figures that looked like embryos. Emerence was a beautiful peasant girl from the mountains who looked strapping but whose blood was dangerously thin. Dr. Gion had to advise her not to have her baby, but he sympathized with her when she would not consider an abortion, even...
...partners serve as directors; they do so only by earnest request of companies who want financial advisers. Q. Do partner-directors force companies to finance with Morgan? A. No. Sometimes such companies finance elsewhere but often finance with Morgan. Q. Do not the interest of the partners as bankers conflict with their duties as directors? A. No. Partners as directors have their chief interest in the success of companies which they serve...
Bank secrecy: Q. Should not private banks be examined and forced to publish statements of condition? A. Possibly-but hitherto publication of such statements would conflict with State law prohibiting private bankers from advertising for deposits. Q. What assurance has a depositor of the solvency of Morgan & Co.? A. Faith. Q, Are not depositors entitled to statements of Morgan & Co.'s condition? A. They can have them if they want them; no one has ever asked. Q. Has any public statement of this fact ever been made except when the Elder Morgan testified before the Pujo Committee 20 years...
...first conflict came when Mr. Pecora tried to spread on the record one more subject of intense curiosity, the articles of copartnership in the House of Morgan, showing exactly how responsibility and profits are divided. Mr. Davis insisted the articles were "strictly private." The issue was dropped for the moment but later in executive session the committee decided to demand to see the articles...
...Each time the Metropolitan mounted the work of a U. S. composer, people complained because its subject was not native. The opera Critic Stokes had in mind would be set in colonial Quincy, Mass. Its characters would be Puritans, Cavaliers, Indians; its themes, bigotry and a parson's conflict with his lustful soul. Critic Stokes asked Rochester's Howard Hanson if he would please write the music, submitted his scheme to the Metropolitan. Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, knowing from experience with Composer Deems Taylor that critics are likely to be lenient with the efforts of their fellow critics...