Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidents are broken down by outside enterprises. Traveling about the country, making speeches, undertaking to furnish inspiration and leadership for all the good causes in the land are some of them. ... I try to remember that there is only one ex-President living...
...turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws. But to run off with them to give them to the Church-bah! A vision, did the bishop say? The bishop would make him give the goods back? Visions like that would land a boy in the lockup...
...fellows. Second formers stuffed pillows under their coats in order to resemble him. He was bulky then, but hard, and quick afoot. He entered Princeton at 268. In his junior year (1898) he became the Princeton captain, and his fame boomed like a cheer over all the land. He was at this time...
...this fee he gives certain quarters (always with bath) and services. He knows that his rooms will always be 80% to 85% occupied, 60% being the average for most other hotels. (He insists on keeping some free for renovating.) The number of rooms must be large. Finally the land on which his hotels stand must not be too expensive...
...buying or leasing land that he finds his greatest difficulty. Realtors and mortgage underwriters dash at his office in Manhattan with flashing descriptions of their land values. Let Mr. Statler promise to build a hotel anywhere from Trenton to Tacoma. they will see that it is financed. They do not realize that he finances his new hotels from the operating profits of his old, and that, if he were to go to public financing, humanitarian that he is, he would want to be certain that not only were promoters prosperous and bondholders satisfied, but also that preferred shareholders received their...