Word: profiteer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Mr. White edits in a city of 13,000 he is famed throughout the world. Though Mr. Culburtson has been Minister to Rumania since 1925 and is a world authority on economics he is insufficiently famed among his countrymen. They might have peered at him with profit, last week, as he was promoted by President Coolidge to be U. S. Ambassador...
...princes first, and later the needs of governments, were the opportunities of the Rothschilds. The wars of the Allies against Napoleon, the collection of the French indemnity, the efforts of Metternich to crush every outbreak of liberal ideas-all these required money. The Rothschilds provided it, at a profit...
Recognizing the seething ferment in American education today, "Better Schools" is an attempt to select for the layman and unspecialized teacher or school administrator some of the more outstanding and successful experiments, and to present them in a way that will help one to understand and profit by America's new school ways. They are remarkably successful in a non-technical way, and parents as well as educators of all ranks might profit by reading the material they present...
When the plaint of tobacco jobbers and retailers reached President George J. Whelan of the Union Tobacco Co.-that they were not making a living margin of profit on tobacco sales-President Whelan set up a smart system of selling them goodwill as well as tobacco. The system, as developed last week, is to give Union Tobacco stock shares to jobbers and retailers in proportion to their purchases. For every $1,000 of Union Tobacco goods a jobber buys he is to get one certificate of Union Tobacco stock worth nominally $30. That is a 3% bonus. For every...
...full extent, are not to be perceived or judged by the reason alone. It is in agreement with this aphorism that the undergraduate who convinces himself prominence in a single sport is worth abandonment of his scholastic hopes, the business man who decides in favor of practices yielding immediate profit, the politician who discards platform policies to enter an oil cabal may all be following the path that seems to them the irrefutable correct one Philosophers and moralists, confronted with this ethical dilemma, have had recourse to various phrasings of the Golden Rule, saying that there is a distinction between...