Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States has maintained what is generally known as the current rates of wages. It has not been done. There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing. And even among the most talked-of companies, the so-called big companies. ... I am not going to mention names of all of the companies in this room that have cut wages; I do not want to embarrass them; but I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business...
...early morning train to Manhattan, played poker. Every winter F. T. Bedford would spend a month or so with his father at Lake Wales, Fla. Each admired the other. But years ago they made a rule never to discuss business together. The rule was very seldom broken even to mention such important matters as Corn Products' patent infringement suit against Penick & Ford, or Penick & Ford's patent infringement suit against Corn Products...
Your publication gave no mention of this occurrence...
...modestly feels the indebtedness that is owed him but it is hardly ever that he risks making known this innner sentiment. Hence it is that he was highly incensed this morning when he read the false accusations that were made against him in a certain journal. His afore mentioned scruples forbid him even to mention the name of his maligner. He will jest let that go. The statements concerning his running a "racket"--even the mere word is repulsive-- are wholly false. There need be no formal denials and no explanations. In the hearts of his followers the Vagabond...
Thus the President avoided mention of Debts, Tariffs, Silver and every other subject on the agenda of the I. C. C. and sprang as a neat surprise the syllogism that the way out of Depression is via Disarmament...