Word: particularly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particular interest are the estimates on Surplus and Deficit?figures much mouthed in Congress and on the political stump. Whether the Treasury estimates are accurate or not is highly debatable. Secretary Mellon can quickly prove that Mr. McCoy's errors as a fiscal forecaster are negligible. At the Capitol, the Treasury's actuary can be and often is made out a worthless prophet. But there is no disputing this fact about Mr. McCoy: if and when his estimates err, it is on the cautious side?over for Deficit, under for Surplus. Perhaps his merry mien is due in some measure...
...spite of its new ranking as a three billion dollar corporation, however, A. T. & T. took particular care to discourage this bull statistic with a relatively bearish announcement. Knowing that pool operators were eyeing A.T.& T. as a prospective bull favorite, and that rumors of an approaching stock split up had already been started, A. T. & T. officials emphatically denied that any such split up was under consideration. Also, with momentous significance, these officials called attention to President Walter S. Gifford's 1928 report. In this report, President Gifford said: "The American Telephone & Telegraph Co. accepts its responsibility...
...millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made particular reference to Owen D. Young (whose General Electric Co. it credited with controlling National Broadcasting), felt that Chairman Young could not knowingly permit the radio chain to aid in "undermining the interests of the American home and of honest business...
...making a resolution on the first of May--namely that his suggestions for the second day of this month eschew the consideration of laudable but after all secondary matters such as excursions up the river and Divisional Examinations, in favor of what is in the last analysis his particular line of activity: the academic...
...southwest over the abattoir. Perhaps it was because neither of these desiderata obtained, or perhaps due to the proximity to the Mt. Auburn Cemetery, that the Vagabond was set to musing on the eternal brevity of all things in general, and the period between then and his examinations in particular. But the sun shone too brightly and the breeze wafted too softly for such morbid reflections, so that suddenly what with the spring and all there flashed into his mind-one of those inspirations for which the Vagabond is famous-a line of what might, with judicious help...