Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lilienthal had proposed that each member of the Board take temporary responsibility for specified phases of TVA work. To this the chairman agreed. Not until five years later did his colleagues know that he imputed to them improper motives in pressing this plan...
...Nonsense!" snapped Jimmy Hines, whose neighbors know him as a sober, honest family man whose only vices are golf, betting on horses and prize fights, giving lavish political parties. "That's ridiculous! Dewey knows better than anyone that that...
...should know," wrote careful Mr. Dewey to some enthusiastic friends lately, "that I am devoting all my time to my duties as district attorney ... and am not a candidate for any other office. . . . Any attempt to inject my name into politics prejudices my work...
...Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson talked about himself. Said he: "I took myself and multiplied myself 100-fold. For instance, by nature I am witty. So I worked night and day to be brilliant. By nature, I am cocky. So I multiplied it.... By nature I am humble. ... I really know I am, for only humble people have the right to be conceited. That's why I'm so humble...
Ford Motor Co. mails dividend checks to only three stockholders-Henry Ford, his son Edsel and Edsel's wife, Eleanor. Because it has no other stockholders to coddle, the company does not publish an income statement and the public cannot know exactly what Ford's earnings are. Only clue to the firm's profits & losses is the balance sheet it is required to file each year in Massachusetts. Last week the report for 1937 was filed and the public's annual guessing game got under way. Majority guess: Although Ford produced 1,314,369 cars & trucks...