Word: goings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note represented strenuous efforts by the President and seven U. S. admirals to go rather more than half way to meet Mr. MacDonald's ideas of how the U. S. and Britain should achieve first naval parity and then mutual reduction of armaments. Pleased, but unwilling to make a snap decision without expert judgment, the Prime Minister personally rang up the Admiralty, asked First Lord Albert Victor Alexander to step over. When he came and approved the Hoover offer Scot MacDonald hesitated no longer. For more than a month he had been unable to say definitely whether...
...feature. According to Mr. Reynolds, it was not designed to speculate in securities but was established primarily to assist Continental-Illinois' 40,000 commercial customers. Said Mr. Reynolds: "There are innumerable instances where a company is not entitled to commercial bank credit . . . and is in no position to go to the securities market. . . . Yet it is entirely sound and worthy of banking cooperation. . . . We know from experience that there is keen need for this additional banking service, that it is entirely sound and extremely lucrative. . . . There will be [in Continental Chicago Corp.] nothing of the speculative activity in which...
...reading, needlework, cooking, hardly suggested a rakish character. As for himself he said: "I was married, but legally separated from my wife. I was unhappy and without comfort. I loved Miss Austral and she loved me and we still love one another. We decided then that we must go through everything in the recognized legal way. I was divorced, and my former wife is now happily married to another man. I married Miss Austral. "How dare the Church criticize us? Supposing there had been no divorce? Supposing that we had not been brave and moral enough to take the matter...
...Tomorrow you "'go solo...
...Tomorrow you 'go solo...