Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test of a man is the fight he makes," is the motto that hangs in the San Francisco office of shy, chunky Banker Ashby Oliver Stewart. This is the sort of spirit to endear him to famed Banker Amadeo Peter Giannini, currently facing the biggest fight of his career, result of an SEC crackdown charging Giannini's Transamerica Corp. with a false and misleading securities registration (TIME, Dec. 12). In 1933 Banker Stewart took over from "A. P." the Bankitaly Mortgage Co. Last week he took over a "large block of stock" and the chairmanship of Bancamerica-Blair, investment...
...company of women; only mothers and sisters are tolerated. "But the vows are in no way permanent," said Rosenberg, "they are just for the present." Frankly as an experiment, the members have considered forming a summer camp far from the influence of feminine foibles. "We have no motto, nothing as silly as that," went on Rosenberg, "and no vows of chastity...
...suggest that you adopt the letter, "Defense Program," by Howard R. Anderson...as your motto for this country and print it in every one of your issues hereafter...
...Teacher's Highland Cream" whiskey. Immediately above this basks a nearly naked beauty in a bathing suit, and across from her is a photograph of a swim-suited bridge game on the Riviera which appeared in one of the picture magazines last summer. A shield with the Latin motto, "Sudor et Lacrimae," translated "sweat and tears" is in another corner, while a diapered baby slumbers in the middle...
Twenty-five years ago the National Safety Council was one man with a stenographer, $1,400 and a motto, "Safety First." Last week, convening in Chicago for its Silver Jubilee convention, it was an organization with 5,000 members, an annual budget of $750,000, and importance enough to attract: 10,000 safety specialists from all corners...