Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even in the eighties, unusual distractions were beginning to appear; and this solicitous parent was distressed by the lack of intellectual interests shown by the young friends his boys were bringing to the house. "The only thing they talk about is athletics!" He strove to counteract this influence in his own family by the reading of good literature every evening after dinner--not without success; and he later prepared several volumes of graded selections of the best literature, to provide other parents' children with material for the cultivation of a taste for good reading; for, "good reading," he said...
...Swedish Match Co. controls the International Match Co., a U. S. corporation. This son of its Swedish Corporate parent takes $50,000,000 of the new French bonds. In turn the International will sell to U. S. investors $50,000,000 of its own debentures. They will yield 5% and mature in 20 years...
...bank president from Sugar City, Idaho (Guy Emerson Bowerman), coined the word "overbanked" to characterize the condition of the country from that financial aspect. Urged he: "Fewer, stronger and more profitable banks." He favored consolidations and a country-wide system of chain banks as branches linked to giant parent institutions...
Hard by the Manhattan entrance to Brooklyn Bridge and facing the City Hall, stands the Pulitzer Building. Thirty-seven years ago this building was proudly reared by Joseph Pulitzer, superlatively able parent of the present Pulitzers, proprietors of the World. Atop the building glints the famed gold dome, and that remains the same. The deep intestines of the building have been changed. Four years ago executives perceived that equipment in printing, paper and production had exceeded the capacity of the pressrooms. Uneven quality of paper and shaky printing made no daily match for the immaculately dressed Times and Herald-Tribune...
LITTLE MILDRED--the class of '19 baby, brought along for, as her parent now wonders, God knows what reason. At the end of the first half she will have reduced her neighbors to a state of coma. Two active legs and two satanic arms make her a quadruple threat. Throws peanut shells on the gentleman in front of her. Her father says "Mildred!" the gentleman says other things. A terrific offensive...