Word: originally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intruding into each other's markets. Said President Teagle: "The impression has been created, both in Europe and in this country, that the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, in the face of the present overproduction in the U. S., is buying Russian oil to displace products of American origin in the European markets supplied in part by its foreign subsidiaries. The impression that the Standard Co. of New Jersey has any trade relations with the Soviet government is incorrect. . . ." This said, President Teagle sailed on his 55th trip to Europe. Last week he was in Paris...
...done all this and it is very likely that he has produced an interesting and in all probability and instructive entertainment. Nevertheless he has committed a heinous breach of taste, for he has more than hinted that his inspiration while making the picture was of as divine an origin as was Moses' when he received the Ten Commandments. Evidently the completed film was the work of Cecil B. de Mille in co-operation with Michel the Archangel. Whatever success the picture has, piously murmurs the gentlman, is due not so much to himself as to his celestial...
...become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine in the origin of Rotary." Its statements are dignified nowadays and Rotarians will smile indulgently if they read in the June American Mercury that St. Patrick has been claimed as "first real Kiwanian of the Celtic race."* Rotary...
...Through the Year With Sousa (published by Crowell) by John Philip Sousa, Mr. Sousa says: "The story of the supposed origin of my name is a rattling good one, and, like all ingenious fables, permits of international variation. The German version is that my name is Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand...
...dwell upon those portions of it from which he might be expected to have learned who may appropriately address open letters to the President of the U. S. Would Managing Editor Bakeless, himself the author of two volumes on international politics (Economic Causes of Modern War, The Origin of the Next War), himself a student of history at Williams College and Harvard University, consider himself a proper person to address open letters to the President...