Word: keepings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual presidential guard. ... Its only task is to keep its own quarters in condition...
...Rockefeller wished to put up the sign "Keep Out,'' in Dutch he would have to say Vcrbodcn Tocgant...
...translation "Keep Out" was accepted by TIME from Biographer Winkler, author of John...
...wanted a rest (he is almost 60). "I've never even been in Europe," he said. "I've never played at all, never had a chance to do anything but work." He was asked about a reported remark to the effect that if he had a son he would keep him out of the market with a ten-foot pole and another observation that most brokers were just "broke." He said that he meant the grain, not the stock market. In the grain market all the cards were against you. It was just a selling market. Railroads, he observed, were...
...private bankers" which do not have to be supervised as long as they do not describe themselves as "banks," do not accept deposits that at any time run under $500,? do not transmit money or negotiate notes. The $500 minimum deposit regulation (passed in 1914) is supposed to keep widows, orphans and other "small" depositors out of such banking houses. Present-day prosperity permits many to save $500 without having good banking judgment. Because Clarke Bros, conducted a private banking business, they have been erroneously described as a private bank. A private bank is really an entirely different kind...