Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authority for this quasi-philosophical observation, FORTUNE chose the man who has most frequently been called "greatest U. S. philosopher" although many another might have been used, as for example Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin who said (TIME, Oct. 14): "The entire globe is being embraced in a commercial order determined by physical science. . . ."-ED. Scheme Sirs...
...those managing the initiations. Women students* are regularly seen in the Yard [main campus] and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures. . . . A passerby on Quincy street was embarrassed by public aspersion on his virility. . . ." Until five years ago, when Hasty Pudding merged with the Institute of 1770 (eating club), Hasty Pudding conducted its rituals, like most other Harvard saturnalia, in private...
...grumblers a reduction from an 8-hour day to a 7½-hour day without cutting wages, requested the mine owners to formulate a plan for efficient marketing on a national basis. As neither miners nor owners appeared satisfied Miss Minister Bondfield announced that further conferences would be in order...
...Kreuger and a government committee. In 1927 Herr Kreuger enabled Premier Raymond Poincare of France to complete the stabilization of the franc with a $75,000,000 loan in return for a semimonopoly in French matches. Although Herr Kreuger is always willing to make a large loan investment in order to eliminate competition, he has also succeeded in reducing competition to a minimum even in Great Britain, Germany and Italy, where no government-monopoly has aided him. In this country, his International Match Co. controls about 75% of all match production...
...School faculty are taking such a large share in the work of making America safer for Democracy. For after all Democracy in a very real sense rests upon a proper interpretation and codification of its laws, and constant effort is necessary to keep the legal house in order...