Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sticks to his job a good deal more than eight hours a day, and he masters his facts and has the confidence of business men. He has made a real job out of the Secretariat of Commerce, and because of that he can handle such a problem as the radio industry, sprung in five years from sales totaling $1,000,000 to sales of over $400,000,000, and get results without fuss and with very little legislation...
...decided on cuts in surtaxes and normal taxes and increases in personal exemptions, which it is estimated will reduce revenue about $200,000,000. This reduction leaves a balance of $100,000,000 to be applied for reducing all other taxes, and this is not enough for a great deal of other reduction. It is not enough, for example, to allow the removal of taxes on automobiles. On the other hand, many observers expect the Committee to plan reductions which actually go beyond the $300,000,000 mark which it has agreed to. But Chairman Green expressed hope that...
Wednesday's meeting will be the first of a series, and one of the first attempts of the Business School to deal at first hand with the practical problems of business administration. A large number of executives in Boston are expected to be present...
...abandoned the barber shop to continue as a tradesman in tobacco, candy and other small goods. Nobody paid much attention to him. He was practically the only Negro in town. He did not go to Church, in fact he said he was not a Christian. He read a good deal privately, he had no friends, he "tended up to business." He invested in real estate...
About Theodore Roosevelt: "Roosevelt could be rough, and he was always ready, and his manner in controversy was that of a fighter. There was not much of the patience of Job; there was a great deal of the war-horse rejoicing in his strength and saying 'Ha, ha,' among the trumpets...