Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bribery. Likewise jailed has been Naoyoshi Amaoka, the Tanaka president of the Board of Decoration, indicted specifically for selling "honorary decorations" to vain Japanese during the Imperial enthronement ceremonies last November and December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus. Most crushing denunciation of his régime fell three days before his death, when his right-hand man, Heikichi Ogawa, vice president of Seiyukai...
Strange and condoned has been the existence of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Erotic and impulsive, he deserted his wife and six children to live with a Mrs. Mamah Bostwick Cheney and her two children, family of a Chicago businessman. For himself and them he built a splendidly original home on a rocky hill at Spring Green, southern Wisconsin. A thin-lipped Barbados Negro, their butler, one day chopped Mistress Cheney, her children and four neighbors to death with an axe and burned down the house. When Architect Wright rebuilt it, Miriam Noel, English sculptress who had fallen in love with...
Three authorities in their respective fields, when interviewed yesterday about the Shearer controversy, expressed widely divergent opinions of the validity and implications of the case. C. F. Taeusch, Ph.D. '20, and Associate Professor of Business Ethics at the Business School, found hopeful aspects in the situation, lauding particularly "the frank admission on the part of the officials of ship-building corporations that they made fools of themselves in sponsoring any such activities...
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...most hopeful feature of the Shearer situation is the frank admission on the part of the officials of ship-building corporations that they made fools of themselves in sponsoring any such activities. When business men can so frankly admit their mistakes, instead of attempting to flaunt public good will, it is quite evident that there is a basis for self-regulation in business, which will relieve the Church and the Law of some of its most difficult problems. Another example of this same trend in business is the divesting of the interests of the International Paper and Power Company from...