Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case of the Government against Benedict Crowell, of Cleveland, former Assistant Secretary of War (TIME, Oct. 15), was thrown bodily out of court. Mr. Crowell and six associates were indicted over a year ago on the charge of conspiracy to obtain profit for themselves and their friends from cost-plus contracts for building Army cantonments during the War period. The case came up in October and the defendants filed demurrers...
...been made via Bremen through German middlemen. This made American goods more costly to Russia, and limited her credits here. Now the All-Russian Textile Syndicate, Inc. - a Manhattan agency of the All-Russian Textile Syndicate of Moscow-has been set up to deal directly with American exporters, and obtain credit directly from New York banks. In cotton this new arrangement makes another saving possible; cotton bought abroad is to some extent heavier and more costly since it absorbs moisture in the ocean shipment. By purchasing in New York, this element of hidden expense can be eliminated. Payments...
...Jersey justice declared that to obtain the repeal of an obnoxious law "you have but to enforce it". This is sensible enough. But in America obnoxious laws merely cease to be enforced: they are not repealed, and when contempt for the insignificant, puerile attempts of the law makers results as it must, the derision and disregard of really rational laws is not far off. Obedience to law is a habit and so is disobedience. If the energy of law-making and of law enforcement is to be spent on childish, insincere and unnecessary regulations, the main body of necessary...
...Whereas, the Harvard Graduate Business School, whose course teaches the fundamentals of business practice, and trains men for managerial positions, desires to raise a fund of $800,000 to cover three years financing of the research work necessary to obtain the material for teaching by the Case system...
Among the methods used to obtain internes are the offering of unusual educational opportunities chiefly, but also in some instances the giving of a small salary. Out of 3,717 internes serving in 660 hospitals approved for interne training, 1,863 received no salary whatever...