Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pontiff. Peculiarly and paradoxically is Samuel Seabury fitted to sit in judgment upon the wily rulers of the world's greatest city. A reformer by inclination, he is no fanatic; he uses the conventional means of the law. A representative of the Better Element, he has had political experience more varied than the most cunning double-crossing ward heeler. Pontifical are the remarks which he makes in a soft baritone about the weather. Even his manner of blowing his nose in court is sonorous, distinguished. He also has imagination and a sense of humor...
...leader of the merrier element was James Leary Flood. In his blood was an instinct for the fleshpots; in his bank, money for it. His father was James Clair ("Bonanza King") Flood, onetime saloon keeper, later owner of the Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brien, James...
...Arnott, who became president of Vacuum only last year, and who steps into the presidency of the new company. He has been an oilman since 1896, with Vacuum since 1903. He lives in Short Hills, N. J. Trenchantly he describes Socony-Vacuum: "Not only will it contain every element of the production, refining and distribution of a complete line of petroleum products, but, as if arranged by nature, the field of action of the two companies is surprisingly complementary." Oldest of the top executives is the new chairman of the Executive Committee, grizzle-bearded Charles F. Meyer, who climbed from...
...personal element should be preserved in the Commencement exercises. Indiana Daily Student...
...Lincoln to the American Psychiatric Association at Toronto last week, raised the catcalls of those who hate "debunkers"* of U. S. heroes. Dr. Edward Everett Hicks, Brooklyn psychiatrist and Son of the Revolution, cried: "It is about time the American people awoke to the fact that we have an element in this country† who seem to thrive on slime and filth, even to attacking the memory of the greatest personalities. . . . Blaspheming the memory of the immortal dead should cease...