Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Last week it was stated in TIME, in connection with the Tarafa railroad bill, that "in Cuba it is sometimes said that . . . the Rockefeller-Morgan interests run the railroads." The firm of J.P. Morgan & Co. now states that it has "no interest, direct or indirect, in the Tarafa railroad bill and has not supported...
...road. The railroad was so bungled that the gentleman had to retire from his second post. A Philippine National Bank was set up. But since an auditor examined its books, its President has been in jail. Mr. Forbes concluded that the Filipinos need not independence but a firm hand to guide them...
...days when nearly all women gave up their jobs when they married. She found one, and fell in love with young Roy Beardsley at the same time. Then the struggle began, as she rose in the business world and became private secretary to the head of her firm. She was earning as much as Roy; she loved her work. Could she give up adventure and independence for Roy and a dingy little house in Flatbush? Not on your weekly pay-envelope! So she wished Roy off on her domestic sister Alice and went on her way triumphant, while...
Fifteen years later Jeannette, successful, has risen as high in her firm as a woman could. She is getting $50 a week?nearly half as much as her successor would start in at if that successor were a man. She is lady bountiful to Alice's children. But the spice has gone out of her work, for sex-discrimination keeps her from the higher rungs of the ladder and her only human contacts are the vicarious ones with Alice's family, with her roommate, with Mitxi, her cat. Stung by an impulse she does not wholly understand, she attempts...
...means, as the United Mine Workers say, that there will be no more button strikes. But these are generally of short duration, and the operators prefer to be subject to them rather than collect funds that may be used against them and rather than give the union a firm control of all the miners of the coal fields...