Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Andrew was formerly an instructor and then an assistant professor in the Department of Economics, giving courses on money and banking. When the National Monetary Commission was established, Dr. Andrew became adviser and consulting expert, and was in editorial charge of all publications of that body. He was appointed Director of the Mint and after a short term of service was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, which position he now holds...
Goodlack arrives at Foy and resolves to test Bess, hoping she may prove false and that he may keep the legacy. But finding his efforts futile, he finally tells Bess of the money. Spencer returning from Fayal, has been captured by a Spanish captain. Bess, in the meanwhile, has decided to set sail for Fayal and as captain of the ship "Negro," learns that the Spaniards have desecrated the supposed Spencer's body. The "Negro" gives fight to a Spanish vessel and captures it. When Spencer is brought before her she thinks him a ghost, and he does not recognize...
...annual reports of Dean Briggs on athletics invariably make good reading. They also evince a keen insight into the athletic situation at Harvard. Witness the following sentence: " * * * taxicabs as the sole means of getting about, costly dinners with wines and cigars,--all to be paid for out of gate money,--these things belong with that theory of training which furnishes free automobile rides and theatre trips as a relief to the over-taxed nervous systems of the University squads." Certainly, it would do no harm if this extract were printed on small pasteboards and entrusted to the captains and managers...
...open to criticism on the score of integrity and it is often the case that wherever there is political corruption, business corruption is sure to be behind it. Mr. Spreckels suggested two remedies for political corruption: first, that the shareholders in every corporation should see to it that their money is not being used by the corporation for the purpose of corrupting politics; second, that government be taken away from the few, and put into the hands of the many, and to this end, he advocated direct legislation...
...Jacob H. Schiff, the founder of the Semitic Museum. The Egyptian work is being carried on this winter at the Pyramid of Zawiet-el-Aryan under C. S. Fisher, a student in the Graduate School in 1908-09, and Oric Bates '05. Efforts are now being made to raise money to continue the work in Palestine...