Word: openhandedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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But the bankers were not carelessly openhanded. Said they, in effect: "You can have all the dollars you need, if you get mail contracts, if you start to build your ships. Show us the prospects of profits. And German bankers must co-operate."
Thirty years ago there came to Riker Motor Vehicle Co., of Elisabethport, N. J., (early auto makers) a young man recently returned from the Spanish War. This Johnny Who Had Come Marching Home wanted a job-salary requested, $14 weekly. Openhanded, the Riker people gave him $15. Last week the...
¶ Candidate Smith was praised on the East coast by President John Grier Hibben of Princeton University, who called him a "high type." Candidate Smith was praised on the West coast by Novelist Gertrude Atherton, great grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, who, addressing her fellow Californians before the crucial May Day...
In view of the fact that that limit is by no means definitely established in international law, a suggestion that it be extended is bound to be met with approval by some lawyers, as well as by those who are primarily concerned with law enforcement. The limit was first fixed...