Word: discordances
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...Biggest bank under one roof"), biggest bank west of Manhattan. Last spring he succeeded his younger brother Arthur Reynolds, who retired ostensibly because of poor health, insisting: "The dampness of the climate here affects my ears" (TIME, May 16). Chicagoans had long heard reports of discord between the Brothers Reynolds and their directors, felt sure that it was only a matter of time before Brother George would follow the footsteps of Brother Arthur. Last week on learning that his wife had become ill suddenly, Brother George boomed: "That settles it. I'm through...
...proposition to cut the salaries of the President ($75,000 per year), Cabinet members ($15,000), Senators and Representatives ($10,000) but to furlough other employes without pay and reduce their vacation and sick leave from 30 days to two weeks. Thus the bargaining progressed back & forth, with little discord and no politics. When the meeting ended the House Economy Committee had tentatively agreed to consider a list of changes which, if enacted, were estimated to save between $160,000,000 and $210,000,000. Among them were...
...after years a Temple was erected from the proceeds of the confiscated Gracchan property called the Temple of Concord. On one dark night a man stole in and etched the brother's common epitaph for all the world-"Out of discord comes Concord." They were honest and brave men who died for the principles they so staunchly supported. But they did not die in vain for they sowed the seeds of democracy which was eventually to bring down the foundations of the republic amid the far off thunder of the Triumvirate. Today at 9 in Sever 18 Mr. Hammond will...
...France, decrying the onerous scholastic requirements imposed, comes at a time when what was once a fashion is rapidly establishing itself as a tradition of attacking the predominance of the social and athletic sides of an American college. In both cases, the conditions at the universities are in discord with the dominant principles of advanced study...
...such announcement was made. Shipping men believed that the U. S. Shipping Board had ordered the Dollar and Roosevelt interests to reach a quick agreement on their bidding for U. S. Lines, that a pact was being made which would provide for harmony in rates and sailings, end the discord between the shippers of the Atlantic and Pacific. Significant was the absence of Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines, apparently no longer a principal figure in the U. S. merchant marine...