Word: d
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your recent testimony before the Senate Committee leaves me no alternative other than to ask you to make good the promise you voluntarily gave me some weeks ago, that you would resign at my request. That request I now make."? John D. Rockefeller Jr., controller of 15% of the stock of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, in a letter to Board Chairman Stewart on April...
...That exponent and defender of high standards in business."?Owen D. Young, introducing John D; Rockefeller Jr. at a banquet of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, in Washington last week after publication of the Rockefeller-Stewart correspondence...
...Street been called upon a year ago to name the chairman of any great U. S. corporation, he would most probably have snapped back "Gary?U. S. Steel." This year, not quite so quickly, he would name "Owen D. Young?General Electric...
Chairman Owen D. Young of the General Electric board declared that production was not too great, nor consuming power too small, but that "the trouble with the situation is ... a maladjustment of our economic and financial machinery which permits wheat to rot on the farms in some places while people are starving in others . . . which keeps warehouses full of goods when millions of people need them...
Dorothy is snaked out of her carnival by a Deputy Sheriff, who takes her to his home (where his mother is, so it's all right) to bring her up. They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...