Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With that motto the Morrow Brothers ?cigar stores, washing powder, soap, shoe polish, honey, macaroni, mayonnaise, peanut butter, margarine, pickles, flour, meat, sugar?may be added to the roster of famed self-made business brothers: the two Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James...
...Africa the current champion of Europe, a Negro, challenges all white men. Into the ring springs Otho, feeling himself a new "white hope." In the tenth round Otho remembers his family motto "Up, Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
...their tags as front and rear, and likewise the three States had laws banning the teaching of the theory of evolution in state-aided schools. I wish to add that Kentucky also has the front tag designated as front and the rear designated as, "Kentucky for Progress." The last motto is a standing joke among Kentuckians and many motorists have been fined for mutilating their tags to obliterate this sentiment. Likewise, the evolution law almost passed a few years ago. However, the motto is a criterion of an ignorance-ridden state. It is the 47th state in illiteracy-only...
...outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker Whist Club, ranks high among bankers who are also bridgers. As an employe of Fuller & Smith Co., Cleveland...
Ninety-eight years ago Stephen Girard, the college founder, whose motto was "To rest is to rust," had died. Alumni, whenever they can, go back to Girard for Founder...