Word: never
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never challenged either British or American naval power and we are willing to accept with good grace that there should be two naval powers which share hegemony ... on a basis of parity. But what interests us is that we should not have to pay the costs of the combination. That is to say that we should not have to pay for it with the loss of our independence...
What U. S. politician could turn upon a stranger and say, as he once did: "Sir, I have never seen you before and have no desire to see you again. However, since you appear to wish to lose £100 I will dive for that sum from the top springboard of the hotel diving pool tomorrow at eleven!" Yet from the man whom his college classmates knew as "Galloper" Smith, from the man who was the youngest Lord High Chancellor of Britain's UTILITARIAN BIRKENHEAD . . . went to see his boss. history, who has been Secretary of State for India...
...graduate work at Oxford and Harvard. They knew he was a captain in the War, cited for bravery. They knew he was 36 years old. What they did not realize was that like any true southerner Mr. Blackshear believes Negro and white civilization can at the best be parallel, never equal. This lesson he taught them dramatically at a Sunday service...
...participant in a syndicate, in the first case it is the syndicate head, except when it does not invite any participants but handles the entire job itself, Most houses are syndicate heads in some issues, participants in many others. The lordly House of Morgan, however, is never a participant. During the present year Goldman, Sachs & Co. and G. L. Ohrstrom & Co., Inc., have also handled no issues except those in which they were the leaders...
...three employes and $30,000. But he also had two ideas. First idea was to send salesmen out to sell bonds. In 1882 such procedure was regarded as undignified; Mr. Harris and his men were termed doorbell ringers. But Mr. Harris knew that he, small, new, obscure, would never prosper by waiting for investors to call upon him, so he rang the doorbells, sold the bonds, became ancestor of all bond salesmen since...