Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...alien population of the Upper Adige is outside of those minorities which were the object of special accord in the peace treaties. 2) That Italy will not engage in any discussion of that matter by any Assembly or Council. 3) That the Fascist Government will react with the greatest energy against all plans of such a nature...
...knowing Elijah to be good, assumed the performance to be equally good; applauded indiscriminately mediocre singing by Marjorie Nash, soprano; by Jeanne Laval, contralto; the Elijah of Baritone Louis Gravewre, celebrating his tenth anniversary in the role with a performance well below his usual excellent standard; Septuagenarian Dan Beddoe, greatest of all oratorio tenors at his very best; voluminous but monstrous choral work under the leadership of Albert Stoessel...
...Manhattan last week the developing billion-dollar merger of the Chase National Bank and the Mechanics & Metals National Bank (under the name of the Chase National Bank) seemed catalytic to three other banking consolidations similarly stupendous. Talk on Wall Street was that the National City Bank (the greatest in the U. S., with total assets of $1,215,033,702) was in process of absorbing the Corn Exchange Bank; that the Central Union Trust Co., the National Park Bank and the Chemical National Bank might be driven into union by Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co. (he is reported...
...these the union of the Chase National and the Mechanics & Metals is most interesting, not only because the merger is the greatest of such in U. S. history or because their combined assets of $1,025,943,818 will make them the second billion-dollar bank in this country (outranked only by the National City), but because their histories, their traditions and their fields have been so dissimilar...
...banker, O. H. Cheney, Vice President of the American Exchange-Pacific National Bank, oriented once and for all the importance of the dry-goods industry, and answered those supercilious ones who have jeered at dry-goods men. "I think," he said, "that the department store might be considered the greatest single factor in raising the American standard of living to where it is today, the highest in the world...