Word: profitable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...custom to sing tenor in a church choir, it is also my custom to peruse the current issue of TIME when the service is other than musical, also it often happens that a young lady soprano reads over my shoulder with me, to our mutual profit...
Censure. Two legislative days later the Norris resolution came before a gravely hushed Senate. Arose Senator Bingham, again to speak in self-defense, this time softly, tactfully. His defense: Senators hire their "cousins, sons and daughters" as clerks and nobody complains; he made no profit by the employment of Lobbyist Eyanson; a Senator alone can judge his ethics. His only error, as he saw it, was his failure to notify his colleagues of what he had done. Insisted Senator Bingham: "Nothing dishonorable or disreputable was attempted. . . . My motives were based on my wholehearted zeal for a protective tariff...
...last week. Ontario's problem was whether or not to retain the Conservative Government of Premier George Howard Ferguson and in particular his beloved L. C. A. (Liquor Control Act) under which government liquor stores dole out their wares to the relief of the citizenry, to an annual profit of some $20,000,000 for the Provincial Treasury. Canadian Drys, Ontario Liberals and Progressives cried out against "Conservative wetness and corruption." Premier Ferguson pleaded chiefly, and successfully...
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. reported nine months' net profit greater by $5,254,176 than its corresponding net last year. Similarly the Southern Railway System showed an increase...
...Archer charged a "clique" within the Association was attempting to foster a "college monopoly on legal education by outlawing evening law schools." Dean Lewis retorted that Dean Archer, in advocating recognition of evening schools, had "commercial interests only." Dean Lewis's recommendation was reaffirmed; law schools operated for profit were condemned...