Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first financial relationship between Lawyer Young and Utilitarian Insull was when Mr. Insull formed holding companies to retain control of his empire...
...must reiterate that the problem of foreign debts has in the American mind very definite relationship to the problem of disarmaments and the continuing burden which competitive armaments impose upon us and the rest of the world...
...down to work." Competent or incompetent, the Delegates will meet in sessions expected to be secret, will draft under British guidance a White Paper containing proposals for an Indian Constitution which will then go before the British Parliament. Knotty constitutional questions to be determined by the Conference include: The relationship between the Federal and the Provincial Units, the relative powers of Indian Legislative bodies and the British Parliament. Friends of India and Britain assume that the Constitution will be an enlightened document, according to British lights...
Anna Mathilda McNeill, born in Wilmington, N. C. 128 years ago, was a very prim and formidable lady, proud of her relationship to the McNeills of Barra, the Fairfaxes of Virginia. She married a U. S. Army engineer, bore him four sons, went with him to Russia in 1843 to build a railroad in that country: between Moscow and St. Petersburg. She held family prayers every morning, kept the Sabbath with awful rigidity and insisted on serving roast turkey and pumpkin pie on the banks of the Neva. But she would not be of the slightest interest...
...University where there is no check-up on the emotional and social adjustment of the individual, although such a check exists in theory, the presence of experienced men can be an immediate help to men in the houses, and in addition to all the other benefits of such a relationship it may possibly prove a stimulant to the moribund art of conversation which has increased in importance now that men find themselves at leisure from the hurly-burly of business life...