Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oft told is the story-with-a-moral that during the first year of business Thomas Bat'a became swelled-headed and assumed the airs of a "Gentleman Manager." Upon discovering that the firm was losing money, however, he renounced gentility "and ever since hard work has been his...
In Alexandria, Virginia's peppery little Carter Glass read Senator Borah's Detroit speech (see "Republicans"), and fulminated. He dug up Borah speeches in the Senate in 1919 which charged that the Hoover-headed Food Administration was "directed and controlled by" three of the "vast monopolies which control...
Investors in the seven countries were invited to buy participating debentures of Kreuger & Toll Co The par value of the issue was only 45.000,000 kronor (about $11,000,000). But the market value of the debentures was six or seven times this amount. The American banking group, headed by...
It is understood that Mr. Bacon was recommended to President E. B. Garey, of St. John's, by President Lowell, and he was selected by a committee headed by Dr. J. H. Latane, professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University.
The rest of the Teuton press simply bellowed SCHWEINEHUND!! at M. Aristide Briand, French Foreign Minister, old, baggy-trousered, shaggy-headed, and perhaps Europe's smartest statesman.