Word: direction
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neither J. P. Morgan & Company, nor, so far as they know, any of the companies in which they have any interest, direct or indirect, have taken any position for or against public or private ownership of the St. Lawrence River water power or the matter of its development...
...these students that the institutional training furnished by our colleges may be particularly harmful. I would appeal to them, and direct my appeal to their parents, for it is generally as a result of parental influence that they find themselves in college. In practically every case of serious maladjustment which I have discovered among college students, I have come ultimately to the statement, 'I didn't really want to come to college; I just did it to please the family.' It develops that the student has been persuaded into college by his parents and his contemporaries (who have in turn...
...stock-selling prospectus of the United States Lines, opined that no fostering was needed, withheld its mail contracts. Last week Mr. Brown, finding mail bids of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and other Shipping Board fleet buyers higher than those of competitors, again held back. He begged President Hoover to direct him to reject all pending mail contracts until Congress could decide whether the lagniappe should actually go to Shipping Board buyers, or whether, now that the fleets were sold, the contracts might not be given to lowest bidders as required by law. The President indicated that he would refer this...
...Hendee, head of Dow, Jones's Pacific Coast financial ticker news service, once a newspaper reporter on the Detroit News with Mr. Hogate. The establishment of the Journal seemed a natural out- growth of the establishment last year of Dow, Jones's coast-to-coast direct wire, serving Pacific Coast brokerage houses with last-minute eastern news. Pacific Coast brokers will have in the new Journal the only Western financial newspaper that is in no sense local...
...Universal. He made some good pictures, but took long to make them, spent huge sums, worked his casts to exhaustion. Last year, after finishing The Wedding March, a dull picture in spite of a budget so huge that the producers did not exploit the figures, he started to direct Gloria Swanson in Queen Kelly. Limited strictly as to time and funds, he was removed when he exceeded his limitations. Now he is a good actor again...