Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world in the hope that they can formulate an international law such as Grotius visioned, a law which will by its own prestige erect a bulwark against the international differences of future generations, these judges must count among their number no man who has behind his decisions the firm expression of this country's faith in his colleagues and himself. And thus, the necessity for impressing upon the next Congress the need of immediate action on the question of the world court is apparent. The purpose of the intercollegiate conference being held in New York this evening...
Under its terms Mr. Firestone's engineers will explore Liberia, choose 1,000,000 acres of land best suited to his purposes. The land will be cleared and rubber trees will be planted. Meanwhile a U. S. firm has been engaged to build a breakwater at Monrovia, and give Liberia its first harbor. The Firestone Plantations Co. will build roads, houses and improve sanitary conditions. Some 300,000 natives who never before had any employment, except carrying great baskets on their heads, will be hired. A force of Americans will be sent over to superintend the job; food, household furniture...
Charles S. Pierce '95 of Boston, vice-president and general counsel for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Malcolm Donald '99, partner in the Boston law firm of Herrick, Smith, Donald, and Farley, were named as the two vice-presidents of the Association...
Testimonials. They can be bought in wads of 5000 from a Manhattan firm. Dr. Fishbein presents an example...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...