Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent records, and medals granted by that hierarchy of learning the Franklin Institute, to Berliner and Jenkins for these great achievements, Edison nevertheless claims them, or grossly appears...
These mighty benefactions, as everyone knows, came from oil?oil of a day when a businessman had to be crude to be successful. And yet. the methods of that day fathered the modern corporation. Much ethical refining has been done, to be sure, as witness the demand of earnest John D. Rockefeller Jr. for the resignation of Robert W. Stewart as chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana...
After breakfast, he remains at the table, reads out loud from Sunlit Days (a poem and a prayer for each day of the year). Then a guest reads to him from My Daily Meditation by the late Rev. J. H. Jowett and from a modern version of the New Testament...
...cars & trucks worth wholesale $171,991,251] equaled in volume the entire business of the company ten years ago. I see no reason why ten years hence our export business will not equal our total business of today. Toward Henry Ford, Mr. Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual...
Primitive men hold large meetings for one of three reasons: war, politics or religion. It is only recently that Modern Business Men have taken to holding large meetings. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce, which had its annual convention last week, is only 16 years old. But the reasons that business men hold large meetings are still reasons of war, politics, and ethics substituted for religion...