Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During these busy political years, Manuel Quezon gained a wife, four children, a valuable political ally in the person of Sergio Osmena (now Vice President of the Commonwealth), the Grand Mastery of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands, the presidency of the Nationalista Consolidado Party which runs the Philippines almost as Tammany used to run New York City, the presidency of Manila Railroad Co. and Manila Hotel, a trusteeship in the University of the Philippines and a membership in the Wack Wack Golf Club. He has also earned the esteem of thousands of Nationalist Filipinos...
...dying person is irrational and not responsible for what he says. If he recovers, his attitude is entirely different. ... I deplore the publicity that this [Miss Becker's] case has received and I feel that no editor would have featured this extremely morbid story if it had been in his own family. It is very unhealthy for American psychology...
...Chrysler's testimony was taken in the U. S. along with other depositions but Finance Committee Chairman Bernard Edwin Hutchinson went in person to Sir Cyril's court. In his decision last week Sir Cyril seemed to have been particularly impressed by the evidence against Mr. Hutchinson. The British plaintiffs had described him as a "hard trader" who threatened to flood the market with Chrysler cars at cut-rate prices unless the stock-holders moderated their demands. During the negotiations Mr. Hutchinson was quoted as having snapped: "I am not going to buy what I can and will...
...campaign, the Times executive said, "We are not laboring under any delusion in this matter, such as believing that once a man or woman signs our pledge it will make him or her a same and careful driver, but we do feel, and we know from actual experience, that persons signing this pledge will stop and think, whereas before they might have plunged recklessly onward. If their stopping and thinking saves one life and the sorrow which the loss of that person will cause in his immediate family, the campaign has been successful...
...well as interstate. . . . "The theory upon which the Act is predicated is that public utility holding companies and their subsidiaries are affected with a 'national public interest.' But under the Constitution there is no 'national public interest' which permits of Federal regulation, unless the person, corporation or thing affected with such interest is. in fact, involved directly-not in-directly-in some activity over which the Federal Government . . . has jurisdiction. If the Constitution be construed to permit what the Public Utility Act aims to accomplish, then Federal authority would embrace practically all the activities...