Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceeded to bathe his feet. Spying a Chinese student about to enter the museum, he arose and shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he tossed the frightened Oriental down the steps. At a group of Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that, bawdiness, is the criterion of success...
...applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should make a profession of the publican - a great, an honorable profession. For that reason I think a publican college should be started where candidates would be trained first as social workers and second as first class publicans...
...were in connection with one of the several German banks in which he is heavily interested, or the German ballbearing industry in which he controls about 75% of production, or one of the great steel mills that consume the ore obtained from his Swedish mines. Last week the reason was clear. In the past there had been but two factors in the German match market. One was Swedish Match, the other the government-protected cartel* of independent manufacturers. Recently a new, disturbing agent had appeared. Matches from the vast timberlands of Russia were underselling the western manufactured product. It appeared...
...prime subject for investigation last summer. During an interview which extended over days, the matchmaker said: "There is not a single competitor with sufficient influence upon the different markets to cause us any really serious harm. No market is sufficiently significant to be of importance to us. The reason is that the whole world is our field...
...Reason why five Europeans and one Asiatic will elect the two representatives of the U. S.: the Hoover Administration has negatived repeated proposals at Baden-Baden that the U. S. Governors should be named by the U. S. Federal Reserve Board. In thus eschewing even fiscal "entangling alliances" the U. S. keeps the freest possible hand, appears to have no fear that Europe and Asia will ever elect a Governor unacceptable to Washington...