Word: existing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...
...view that editorials should represent the opinion of the editors of the newspaper, not the opinion of the majority of students in the college. We all felt," he continued, "that the publications should lead, not follow and that the evils of this plan are fewer than those that exist when a paper merely echoes the feelings of the students, the student government, or the faculty...
...everyone knows, the President Roosevelt has been one of the most popular trans-Atlantic ships of the U. S. Lines. Its transfer to another service could only be justified by the existence of an emergency in U. S. shipping. That such an emergency did exist was the theme, last week, of energetic statements from the U. S. Shipping Board and the leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead...
...south of the Mexican border, Latin American telephone systems are now on a par with the U.S. systems of 30 years ago. Some of their equipment actually dates from that period. Important cities have no direct links; rural telephones scarcely exist. Around each densely settled community is spun a small network of telephones, having no relation to neighboring networks. In all Latin America, there is less than one telephone for each 100 inhabitants. The present U.S. ratio...
Viewing these warlike moves, fearing lest some might think his company endangered, Matchmaker Kreuger last week spoke sharply, scornfully. Said he, through the Swedish International Press Bureau: "The Japanese Trust is our good friend. The Chinese syndicates do not exist. Russian matches are not good enough to compete with us in European markets...