Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indubitably the friendship which grew up between the two men had much to do with the rapid rise of Robert Clarkson. In 1921 he was made a vice-president, in 1925 a director, vice-chairman of the executive committee, an assistant to the president. With these pebbles in his pocket, it surprised few astute financial observers to learn, last week, that he had picked up one more...
...other things President Coolidge's letter said, were: "Your personal friendship has always been exceedingly gratifying." And: "I trust that you will find your experience in Washington valuable...
...lawyers' office last week and dissolved the company. This relieved Mr. Davis of his $5,000,000 guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship." Mystic and baron clasped hands. And an "obligation is an obligation" to Reuben H. Donnelley, 63, president of Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (Chicago publishers of directories) and vice president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons (Chicago printers).** Last week, sick abed in St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago...
...incite antiFascists to assassinate Il Duce will be pitilessly suppressed in France. Since Signer Mussolini has tried for months if not years to coerce the French Government into taking .just this stand, his good humor last week was understandable. Said he, however, apropos of a possible treaty of friendship with France: "Such an undertaking . . . could not be based solely on literary and sentimental reasons but must rest on the elimination . . . of reason for friction between the two countries." In the past such friction has been chiefly fomented by journalists on French and Italian soil. There remain, however, certain definite clashes...
...statesmen, last week, were of preponderant importance, the Council took certain official steps. It: 1) Authorized a $30,000,000 loan for Greece, to be raised in Great Britain and the U.S. under League sponsorship; 2) Approved registration with the League, last week, of the Franco-Jugoslav treaty of friendship and accord (TIME, Dec. 5); 3) Listened to the report of the League's Opium Commission which was read by its rapporteur, white-haired Senator Raoul Dandurand of Canada. He, trenchant, charged that traffic in illicit drugs is conducted by persons "with huge financial resources" in nearly every land...