Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spokesman." Mr. Houghton was summoned from London to the White House (TIME, March 29) to give the President what is sometimes called "the low down" on Europe. Senator Harrison found no fault with that. He called the move "all right . . . well, proper and good." What caused the Senator anguish was an interview which Mr. Houghton gave to the press, in accepted White House fashion. That is, he spoke through a "spokesman," a mythical third person whom the President invokes as his mouthpiece, in order that what the "spokesman" says may be contradicted next day, if necessary...
...That is certainly inaccurate. What is happening is a struggle for our proper position in the League, and now that the League has taken the stand that it wants to have Germany join, this struggle must be continued...
Advance-Rumely, manufacturers of stationary, portable and tractor engines, separators, corn shellers, plowing, hulling and threshing machines, fuel and water tanks and trucks, tractor plows and accessories, profited during the year $540,577, equivalent, after proper deductions, to $4.32 on the $12,500,000 6% cumulative preferred stock. Only $3 a share was paid on this preferred, leaving in arrears $13.50 a share or a total of $1,687,500. Nothing was paid on the $13,750,000 of common stock. This showing results, despite the good business year, from the foreclosure sale in 1914 of the M. Rumely...
...London next month is scheduled to arrive the film version of Der Rosenkavalier, charming Viennese opera by Richard Strauss. Last week came the announcement that Herr Strauss would not let it travel alone, that he himself would bring it, see that it had proper accommodations, himself stand in the orchestra pit, interpret his own score to the flickering accompaniment of the bewigged splendors of an old Vienna...
There can be no question of the importance of the work these men might do if it were possible to make proper provision for them. Brought into close contact with the professors who are doing research work in important fields of law, not only will they stimulate the work of those professors but what the latter do will be made more effective practically through the research fellows going back each year to the institutions from which they have come, or going into teaching work in different institutions throughout the country, and thus aiding to diffuse rapidly throughout the country...