Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cooperative society for the advancement of the public welfare. ... I accept the nomination. . . ." Mrs. Coolidge may benefit financially from her husband's new work. The company's directors are paid $50 in gold for each board meeting and $20 in gold for each committee meeting. By custom these payments are turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated to high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred...
...cause the loss of those who are by nature and training best fitted to remain for a longer stay in University Hall. Nothing could be more unfortunate than that some man eager and able to continue in the Dean's Office should be prevented therefrom by the bogie of custom. The fact that the custom bids fair to arise more from inadvertence than design can only increase the regret that its effects may at some time become injurious...
...liquor. The Congressman replied that he had four bottles of whiskey, but as he was a Government official returning from an official mission he could not be stopped. The inspector dipped into one bag and brought up four bottles which he set conspicuously upon a packing case. Customs Inspector James McCabe, working nearby, witnessed the incident, saw the bottles. The Congressman went to a telephone, called the Custom House, obtained a "free entry" order. Liquor was not mentioned in that telephone conversation. The Congressman was thereupon passed, tak- ing with him his four bottles of contraband...
Reginald Henry Phelps '30 of Southwick has been elected secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Chapter of Phi Betta Kappa, it was announced last night. Custom makes the secretary-treasurer marshal of the society in his Senior year...
...chief means of delivering its message." But no mention was made of the fact that Mr. Hammarstrom is an advertising manager and that the picture was actually the work of famed Rockwell Kent.* In naming Mr. Hammarstrom, the Harvard School of Business Administration had followed its usual custom of asking the winner (i.e., the winning organization) of the prize to suggest the individual most worthy of honorable mention, and Marcus & Co. had named Mr. Hammarstrom, had ignored Mr. Kent...