Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Listened with a general air of disapprobation as "Labor Peers" Lord Sydney Arnold and Lord Charles Parmoor deplored what they deemed the excessive readiness of the police to deal harshly with strikers. An example cited was the refusal of the police at Wombwell, Yorkshire, to allow President Herbert Smith of the Yorkshire Miners' Association to address a crowd of 3,000 strikers...
...business office. I inherited a large fortune from my father but have doubled it many times in Brazilian, Spanish and Mexican companies from which ] claim to have derived a total profit of one and a quarter billion Belgian francs ($35,000,000). My most famous attempted 'deal' was an offer to loan $100,000,000 to Belgium and France wherewith to stabilize their currencies. This fell through when it was discovered that I demanded personal control of the state finance of both countries during the stabilization period...
...potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening...
...business experience gained from the CRIMSON competition has been declared by former members of the Business department to be highly practical and valuable after college. The time required does not detract a great deal from a candidate's academic work...
...further reported as having declared that "The political separation of the Philippines from America would deal a heavy blow to the economic welfare of the Filipinos. . . . . since it would mean the destruction of our economic structure and the dislocation and disintegration of our social and political institutions and the lowering of our standard of living." Mr. Villamin's "deep" study of economics has led him to the conclusion that Filipines most attend to their stomach first before thinking of independence. Yes, indeed! Especially is this true of jelly-fish. And Mr. Villamin ought to know...