Word: reading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...
...first day of every Japanese year, while the sun is rising, ten poems are read as pompously as possible to the Son of Heaven, His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito, 124th lineal descendant of the Sun Goddess...
...write a poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...usual, the sublime Emperor himself will write a tanka, but his will not be entered in the competition. Poems must be in by Dec. 16, will be judged at lightning speed by a competent corps of metrical experts, and the winning ten read at break of the New Year...
When glum pre-Prohibition workers of Pacific Coast Steel Co. first read upon their checks "These pay checks are made non-negotiable so that employes cannot cash them in saloons" they knew it was the work of William (Pigiron) Piggott, president of the company, bitter and active campaigner against liquor.* Mr. Piggott by the time of his death (TIME, July 29) had built up his Pacific Coast Steel Co. and its subsidiary, Southern California Iron & Steel Co., to an annual capacity of 380,000 tons-40,000 more than Columbia Steel, only complete steel unit west of the Rockies, managed...