Word: masses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Castelnau, celebrated Royalist soldier, chose a bad place to make a pro-Vatican speech when he addressed a Catholic mass meeting, last week, in the Theatre des Nations at Marseilles in the south of France...
...large measure, the old trusts, the old trust builders and also , the old fear of trusts has gone. Big business still takes its toll of small, : but it does so mostly by the greater efficiency which comes from mass operation and this is regarded as legitimate. The old trust masters, ambitious egoists, often unscrupulous, . have either died or retired. In their place is a new generation who overbid their competitors in efficiency, of which Henry Ford is an example. The public fear of trusts has gone likewise, because the public understands that big business is a necessity under modern conditions...
...December, George F. Willett, banker of Norwood, Mass., sued the Boston banking firms of F. S. Moseley & Co., Killer, Peabody & Co. and Robert F. Herrick, Boston lawyer, for $15,000,000. He claimed that these had conspired to rob his onetime firm, Willett, Sears & Co., of the control of two felt companies. After the longest superior court trial on record (184 days), he got a verdict of $10,534,109.00-the largest judgment ever awarded by a court to an individual (TIME, Dec. 29). When he received news that he had won back this fortune, Mr. Willett...
...your Original Subscribers-continuous since! Friends of mine have read your magazine in my home, have gone home and subscribed! Seven people of whom I know. Here are their names: Walter Gooch, Minneapolis; B. F. Bullard, Cambridge, Mass.; H. B. Van de Bogert, West Medford, Mass.; Walter F. Gushing, Medford, Mass.; Phillips Byefield, Newtonville, Mass.; Warren Scribuer, Minneapolis; M. R. Lauritzen, Minneapolis...
...coming year were elected last night as follows: President Eduardo Sanchez '26, of Ravana, Cuba; Vice President, Elmer Jared Bliss Jr. '26, of Boston Secretary, Charles Harlan Johnston '27, of Des Moines Iowa; Treasurer, Philip Klein Brown '26, of Boston; Executive Committee, Oliver Leland Loring '26, of Newton Mass Ralph Nye '27, of Ogden, Utah. Robert Gardner Rosegrant '26, of Darien, Conn...