Word: respect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Directors, George Fisher Baker Jr. 51, is the only man in the U. S. who sits on the Boards of four of the country's eleven billion-dollar corporations. His are General Electric, General Motors, A. T. & T., U. S. Steel. In that bridge-like respect he is the most potent U.S. financier...
...instance, the strictest necessity a true scientific method is to avoid assuming that a merely coincident factor or condition is a cause. To prove scientificaly that crime is due to endocrinal defects, one would have to show not only that all criminals are defective in that respect, but that all endocrinal defectives are criminals! It may be so, but it is far from proved...
...unless the number of endocrinal defectives (and consequently of criminals) is enormously large, it is not extremely plausible . Few mothers escape grave occasion for worry, and most of them are obliged to perform rather laborious tasks during the critical period. There has been a marked advance in this respect within recent years, still, ideal conditions are anything but general. If worry and hard work on the part of the mother resulted in idiocy and criminality in the child, the world would be rather worse off than it now is. In fact, it would
...revolution" would go remained to be seen, but last week's developments proved Mrs. Bailie right in one respect. The "revolution" of the Daughters was not over. In New Haven, Conn., awakening to what Mrs. Bailie meant and what had happened to her, a dozen more Daughters-distinguished ones, too-not only rose in revolt, but marched right out of the D. A. R., resigned...
Other banks, of course, will follow. But none yet accommodates the needy borrower in every respect. If he has no willing friends to countersign his note to a "Morris Plan" (7%) or "National City-Marine Trust Plan" (6%) bank, he must pawn his household goods, automobile or other personal possessions with whatever moneylender he can wheedle, at the highest rate the lender dares command. Nor is it easy to get endorsers, since persons with sufficient money sense to become acceptable guarantors are not promiscuous with their signatures...