Word: differences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to say how, if in any way, Mr. Kellogg's foreign policy will differ from Mr. Hughes.' The President announced that there was no prospect of a change in policy. It was suggested that Mr. Kellogg's appointment is but temporary. This suggestion was made largely because of a general impression that Mr. Kellogg is not very able, that he is an indecisive, worrying, nervous little man, a capable lawyer but without much driving force. Mark Sullivan, one of the aldest of political observers, was inclined to discount this impression of the Secretary of State...
...publication of this picture I consider as a despicable attack upon a man who, while you may differ from him vitally, does not deserve this sort of treatment at your hands. You received the picture from some other source but this does not excuse its publication...
...according to these decisions, "cumulative and non-cumulative preferred stocks differ only in that cumulative stocks are entitled to dividends, whether earned or not, in any particular year." Preferred stockholders, therefore, contrary to what has been hitherto believed, do not lose a dividend which has been earned but not paid when earned...
...French honestly did the best they knew how to do for us; and if the sleeping quarters were not what we had been accustomed to, and the transportation somewhat bizarre, and the crowds somewhat chilly-we should at least remember that the French and American ideas of sleeping quarters differ vastly; that they consider charabancs and rough roads a daily affair, even if we do not; and that no crowd can be expected to enthuse over the continued defeat of its own representatives...
Requirements for the three departments differ widely. Candidates for the News Department are reporters. It is their task to get the news for each issue. The competition is conducted on a point basis. Scoops, which a man secures on his own initiative, count twice as much as assignments. News candidates have ample opportunity to meet and interview prominent leaders in all walks of life...