Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Latham Doherty (TIME, March 28), head of the $650,000,000 Cities Service Co., has been reviving his health at Battle Creek, Mich.* He telegraphed to Mr. Teagle: "... I have spent far too much of everything worth while of value in life to follow meekly in further blunders...
...cooperate. . . . But Dr. Schacht knew that they would. . . . His power as President of the Reichsbank, backed by the possibility of Government-sponsored legislation, was not to be thwarted. Soon the banks announced "voluntarily" an arbitrary reduction of all loans to market operators of 25%, with further progressive reductions to follow. Like a pricked bubble, the market burst. The average decline of all stocks was 45 points. Glazed textiles, quoted on the former bull market at seven times their par, tobogganed almost instantly 150 points. On the other great German stock exchanges in Frankfort, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., the collapse...
...lower house of the Illinois legislature has called for a state referendum on the whole question an example which other legislatures might do well to follow. The votes of the citizens are the only statistics which can put an end to the welter of opposing figures, of can vasses and straw votes, stirred up by the wets and drys, and they might have some effect, as well, on the hidden forces which foment in Washington. As it is both supporters of and objectors against the eighteenth amendment must admit that its machinery needs readjusting...
...membership of the Club, H. L. Holland '28 was chosen Director to succeed, A. F. Keeley '27; S. S. Ganz '28 was made Manager to follow Randolf Piper '27; J. M. Slade '28 succeeding Ganz as Treasurer. A. M. Stone '30, was elected Secretary to follow C. P. Englehardt '28 and G. E. Mahlert '30 was chosen Librarian to succeed L. B. Benjamin...
...team at home, this argument does not seem valid. We must admit practical objections but we can not include under this head the failure of a college to fulfill in a gentlemanly fashion its share of a mutual agreement. Harvard should expect her graduates as should also Yale to follow their respective athletic heads in a guiding policy of "mutual trust...