Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Chamber of Commerce has a membership of over thirteen hundred. Without first obtaining an expression from the individual members, six ballots were cast on the question. The reported result was five to one in favor of the $400,000,000.00 reduction. Was this the opinion of the group or merely the opinion of six men who might have been prejudiced on the question? Assuming that all other Chambers of Commerce throughout the country cast their ballot in the same way, is the stand of the United States Chamber of Commerce the opinion from a "cross section of the country...
...Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed; but last week Reichstag demagogs stampeded the bill through, on the grounds that "the assembling of foreign motor cars from imported parts in Germany is an evasion...
...need for a trial, which could have had but one result, was a thing nobody thought of. . . . The Public was invited to do with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account...
...late hour last night by the retiring officers of the class. Wallace Russell Harper, of Ottumwa, lowa., has been elected president, James Elmer Barrett, of Leominster, vice-president, and John Van Nostrand Hitch, of Milton, secretary. The voting was done by the preferential ballot, the lowest man in each group winning the position...
...gayety should diminish, if they do not disappear altogether. A close investigation of the credentials of firms, in the past a work of the Office, may now be placed more generally in the hands of the Senior himself. Guidance of graduates already acquainted with a business should minimize that group of errors which have been ascribable to precipitate choice...