Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Jan. 11 issue, on p. 27, in a footnote, you refer to Clarence Dillon as the builder of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. This is not correct. A few years ago the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. purchased the assets of the Steel & Tube Co. of America, in which a syndicate managed by Dillon, Read & Co. owned a controlling common stock interest. That is all. The Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. was founded in 1901 and owes its present preeminence to its President, James A. Campbell and his associates...
...Division of Fine Arts which is raising $150,000 (from sculptors, $10,000) for a Fine Arts Bay in the Cathedral. He said: "The Cathedral is not being built for the benefit of American sculptors or architects but for the cause of religion. . . . Dr. Cram is entirely correct in feeling that he must get the best sculptors he can find...
...geography correct? Look to the Bible, because we cannot teach anything contrary thereto. And yet, when the Bible was written, very little of the world was discovered. Is my astronomy correct? Look to the Bible. And yet, the Bible was written before the invention of the telescope. Is my geology correct? Is my biology correct? Look to the Bible. . . . If perchance the majority somewhere should not be a Christian majority, the Koran or the Book of Mormon or any other might equally well be set up as a standard of truth, knowledge and scientific learning...
...think she dresses very properly, and if all women followed her style the country would be better off. Mrs. Coolidge is a woman of tremendous common sense. I have not seen her in all types of costume, but I have never seen her when her dress was not correct in every respect...
...WILLIS: Why, of course the Senator is correct about that. Senators travel upon trains as other citizens do. I submit to any Senator who has been traveling in the past 25 years whether there is any change in the situation. Drunkenness used to be common upon the trains. A score of times I have been spoken to by conductors upon the railroad trains in the State of Ohio, before prohibition went into effect, begging me to do what I could then, as a member of the general assembly and subsequently as a private citizen, to exterminate this traffic because they...