Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center of the American busi ness stage has been almost monopolized by the stock market during the past week. Ten days ago share prices were distinctly weak; of the speculative "leaders," Can declined ¼ in a day, Baldwin ?, Studebaker ?, Steel 1?. Even the reliable chain stores sold off sharply. Stewart Warner dropped...
RAIN?The United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...
...when he became Secretary of the Board of Trade. His fine business brain and the manner in which he had discharged his duties under the Coalition Government induced Bonar Law to appoint him as Chancellor of the Exchequer last Fall. This office he also filled with excellent busi- ness efficiency. His experience has not been great as politicians go, and he is confronted with enormous difficulties. It is safe to say that his policy will be chiefly di-rected on economic grounds. Asked by reporters if they might congratulate him, Baldwin replied, "Thanks, I am a subject for prayers rather...
...recent contributor of yours has, I think, made a rather unsatisfactory, if not altogether lame, comparison between the man who uses "Tutorial School" notes and he who does not. "The former," he says, "learns stick-to-it-ness, the latter concentration, both of which are valuable." This would leave one to think that one course was as productive of good as another. This is rather deceptive. Is, say a three-day concentration period, able to compare in value with a four month stick-to-it period? Or is concentration a desirable so rare that a little of it will...
...author of the communication points out that the use of tutoring school notes stimulates concentration which, like "stick-to-it-ness" is truly valuable. In the same breath he shows the advantages to be derived by the heads of the schools themselves from their excellent training in business management. It is interesting to note that a College for Confidence Men discovered and dismantled last spring in Denver claimed almost exactly these advantages in its defence. By the same argument it could be shown with much truth that burglary as a profession has much to offer Undoubtedly it develops...