Word: plate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...richest of Eastern vestments and in churches that can afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes in the Roman Church the retention of papal temporal power. As in all the Anglican (and U. S. Episcopal) devices, it has been appropriated from Rome...
...thus saluted him. The United Typothetae of America (U. S. employing printers) waited until last March, and the Clubs of Printing House Craftsmen (U. S. printing executives) waited until last week, to salute, in his 70th year, the author of practically all modern picture-printing processes - half tones, color plates, intaglio or "rotogravure." The author, in short, of the pictures of murderers and statesmen in the newspapers; of the sepia supplements and the ravishing hosiery advertisements; of the stunning magazine covers, richly illustrated natural histories, automobile catalogs and many more visual luxuries that are rushed today before the eyes...
...immediately after their conference with the stockholders of the Erie. Next they will confer with those of the Hocking Valley and of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They seek to mollify minority stockholders who dissented so strenuously last spring from permitting their roads to join with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate Railroad into a billion-dollar Nickel Plate System...
...first of August the brothers expect to have soothed enough minority holders to appear most circumspectly before the I. C. C. and to have fair chances of getting that body's approval to their Nickel Plate System...
Banker Van Vetchen's availability as a President is not lessened by his directorates on the Nickel Plate Railroad, the Advance-Rumley Co. (agricultural implements) and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. The State Bank has resources of $66,000,000, is well organized, prodigiously profitable, but rather a neighborhood affair as great banks go at present. It hopes that Banker Van Vechten can wrap the purple of prestige about his new colleagues, lead them to diocesan power...