Word: presentably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...
...present," said Premier Ferguson, "the seams have been located by drill to a length of one mile, and a width of one-half mile, and of an established thickness averaging 18 ft. This in itself constitutes a reserve of several million tons, and it is in every way likely that a seam of such thickness will be found to be more extensive. It is anticipated that further drilling will prove the deposit to be truly a large and important one. The present ten holes merely constitute a start in our exploratory program...
...good friend of long suffering "Conchies" is the present Labor Government. Prime Minister MacDonald himself objected long and violently to the War. Other onetime "Conchies" throng Labor's councils. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden signed an order...
...though the electric utility seems to have been expressly designed for capitalistic development, it is only within the present year that J. P. Morgan & Co., most potent embodiment of U. S. capital, has entered largely into the light and power field. Excited, last week, were U. S. newspapers and U. S. senators when the Morgan utility interests acquired from the Mellon utility interests a group of light and power companies along the St. Lawrence River. Significant indeed was this transaction, but in a larger sense it was only a milestone along the Morgan utility road. When the economic textbooks...
...entirely sound and worthy of banking cooperation. . . . We know from experience that there is keen need for this additional banking service, that it is entirely sound and extremely lucrative. . . . There will be [in Continental Chicago Corp.] nothing of the speculative activity in which many of the present organizations [investment trusts] are prominent and which will undoubtedly, occasion difficulty unless it is abandoned." It appeared, therefore, that Continental Chicago Corp. would function as a financial foster-father for Chicago and Midwestern industry, would provide funds for the expansion of many a middle-western business, and that its well-being would...