Word: prided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown son, pride in his golf, a fondness for fishing and a natural leaning toward conservatism. The executive offices in his new building are period (Queen Anne and Georgian), but the president's office does have a highly functional bar adjoining. At home Harry Housser has to serve his guests himself because...
...must be practiced as well as preached. Two-thirds of General Wood's letter to stockholders was devoted to outlining responsibilities: 1) to the public; 2) to employes (48,200); 3) to stockholders (42,700); 4) to Sears' sources of supplies (6,461 manufacturers). After pointing with pride to the company's policy of keeping wages ahead of advancing living costs and providing vacations with pay, General Wood made the first public accounting of Sears' Employes' Savings & Profit Sharing Pension Fund through which the workers have become the largest single stockholding group in Sears, Roebuck...
...Militia from growing over confident at their success northeast of Madrid in driving Italian Rightists back nearly 20 miles (TIME, March 22). The General by last week had toured the ter rain from which the Italians fled, abandoning roughly 2,000,000 rounds of am munition, and his pride in Spanish prow ess was at bursting point. A group of neutral Red Cross doctors and nurses offered General Miaja a likely audience of foreigners, and with gusto he let himself go about the Italians: "Are these the men on whom the countries which wish to in flame the world must...
...tribute to the man who had operated the country's eighth largest steel company for a third of a century without the loss of a pound of production or an hour's work from labor trouble. Armco spirit, Mr. Verity once wrote, makes for "Pep, Pride, Production, Progress, Patriotism and Prosperity." To Middletowners George Verity seems in deed eternal...
...female, Mrs. David E. Brown of the Middle Atlantic Conference. Though the No. 1 Congregationalist is Statistician Roger Babson, moderator of the Church's General Council, an honorary moderator is Dr. Mary Emma Woolley, retiring president of Mount Holyoke College. Last week female Congregationalists glowed with pride when they heard that one of their sex had been elected to be Congregationalist Babson's opposite number in South Africa. Though no minister, Emilie Solomon of Capetown was made the first woman chairman of the Congregational Union of South Africa. Two female ministers, Rev. Euphemia Mclntosh and Rev. Lilian Dower...