Word: righte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound background of collegiate study for success in the business world. As the problems of manufacture and distribution grow, they increasingly demand for their administration minds capable of grasping the delicate abstractions and involved theory upon which they depend. Business success no longer involves a mere doing of the right thing by intuition or experience but is only obtained by those whose minds are trained to recognize the entire implication of the affairs with which they deal...
...present situation is ideal for big business, the one percent of our population which owns one third of our wealth. The Du Ponts will be on the right side whichever party wins. They are 'sitting pretty'; and it's worth to them all they pay for it. Business is a two car train. Salesman Smith is selling seats in his car, and advertises the added attraction of a rack for the hip flash on the side of the bench to obviate the necessity of having to stoop down to get it from under the bench; otherwise, business might as well...
...Talley trouble," meanwhile, has come to mean lack of temperament. The life she leads has been as much to blame. In it there have been vocal gymnastics, new languages for new operas, right living. There have been few books, few friends, no beaus. There have been the rigid standards bred by the First Christian Church of Kansas City, a public to be a little suspicious of, and a handful of haughty prima donna ways which have not helped her popularity...
...good news came. From Chicago, President George B. Everitt† wrote stockholders. Interesting was the promise that Jan. 1 would see 200 chain stores in operation. But transcend ent for traders was the common stock increase from 1,285,000 to 6,000,000 shares, giving stockholders the right to buy two new shares, at $17.50 each, for every share now held...
Alice Anne Montgomery, Duchess (in her own right) of Buckingham and Chandos, returned from Scotland with her usual autumn armful of water colors, including one of a woman 86 years old which Her Grace calls Grannie in the Moors...