Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...management, represented by Alton B. Parker (who was Democratic nominee for President of the U. S. A. in 1904), has fought to retain control by an appeal to the preferred stockholders to let Doherty rather than the banking firm of Lehman Brothers finance the Company out of its present difficulties. This appeal has led to a typical retort from Samuel Untermyer, attorney for the preferred stockholders and the Lehman interests. "Judge Parker," the Untermyer statement concludes, "has been misled into making reckless assertions as to the Company's condition that are temperately characterized as of unsurpassed audacity and inaccuracy...
...Russian producer Danchenko announced that he will " modernize " Carmen. That is, he will retain the present musical form as much as possible, but will change the libretto to make it more realistic and conform it as far as possible to the original novel, Carmen, by Prosper M´erim...
...Fascist Party itself, Mussolini fears strong opposition, because the revolutionary party ranks were watered by a rush of Fascisti who wanted to hold office. These men would probably do anything to get and retain power...
...mere teaching how to study will enable the dullards to get by. Many who go in for "cramming" retain their acquired information only just long enough acquired information only just long enough to use it in the examinations. It has to be hammered into their heads, and without such a drastic process would never get in at all. But it more attention were paid to helping students learn how to organize their studies, how to systematize and analyse their work, fewer men would resort to "cramming" schools and undergraduates would get out of their studies more than they...
...Baptist connections of the Uni-versity of Chicago have been so far relaxed that the President need no longer belong to that denomination and only three fifths instead of two thirds of the trustees need be Baptists. Chicago was the last of the great universities to retain such a connection...