Word: purs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carnegie Corp.). Many a guest was too old to have known, as a school boy, Father Sill's influence. But all joined, as the dinner announcement stated: In grateful recognition of twenty-five years of devoted service to his ideals: simplicity of life, self-sacrifice and directness of pur- pose...
Credit Unions. Co-operative savings and loan societies run for the benefit of members who pool their savings by pur- chase of stock and by direct deposits are known as credit unions. About 1,020 of them in the U. S. do a $62,000,000-per-year business. Their great sponsors are Edward Albert Filene. Boston merchant, and his 20th Century Fund...
...percent under this company's rates. Even the phraseology of this company's rate schedule was duplicated on the published rate schedule of the Cordele authorities. In addition to cutting this company's rates, political, social and economic pressure was brought to bear upon pur customers in Cordele. In reducing its rates in Cordele, this company moved to protect its investment and business in Cordele from unfair competition and not from "public competition...
Explanations. Alarmed at the sudden outcry, Army & Navy officials hastened to explain that they were compelled to buy foreign food products for their outposts because U. S. law requires them to pur- chase from the lowest competitive bidders...
...treaty was Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Com mittee. A Big-Navy man, Senator Hale called his committee together to make an independent inquiry into its effects upon the Navy. The Hale hearings have no official standing, are for the patent pur pose of drumming up treaty opposition, if any, by staging a publicity sideshow. As Witness No. 1, Senator Hale summoned Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, a London delegate, to explain and elucidate. Later would be called Admirals William Veazie Pratt and Hilary P. Jones, naval advisors...