Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Theodore Roosevelt felt this defect in the wording of the Anti-Trust Law, and on June 3, 1911, wrote in The Outlook: "What is urgently needed is the enactment of drastic and far-reaching legislation which shall put the great Inter-State business corporations of the type of the Standard...
Lyman Abbott, Editor, The Outlook...
Executive duties stole too much time from literary pursuits; so Lawrence F. Abbott, for 32 years President of the Outlook Company, has resigned to become Contributing Editor. His post is taken by Harold F. Pulsifer, who has been Literary Editor since the retirement of Hamilton W. Mabie...
...Outlook, once a weekly of "generally entertaining and instructive literature," edited by Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, first rose to national prominence under Lyman Abbott, who became joint editor in 1876. The late Colonel Roosevelt was for five years Contributing Editor...
...stock market, thus far the most accurate barometer of public opinion regarding future business, has been in the main dull and hesitant, indicating the inability of the ablest judges at the present time to read any clear meaning in the confused and contradictory trade outlook. To the confusion of the pessimist, the iron and steel output continues at record-breaking figures, while the optimist is bewildered by the evident climax reached in speculative building, the strange unfavorable trade balance, and other disturbing events. In the absence of a willingness to undertake either buying or selling commitments, it is natural that...