Word: schwab
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact the ritual of farm relief hear- ings became so stupid that Oklahoma's Senator Thomas proposed a means of enlivening them. He would call tycoons of industry and finance?Henry Ford, John Pierpont Morgan, Charles Michael Schwab, Paul Moritz Warburg, Owen D. Young, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Andrew William Mellon?and have them say what was wrong with the farmer...
...concludes his series of Expositions of Chamber Music tonight when he appears in a concert at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building at 8.15 o'clock. The New York string quartet composed by Mr. Ottokar Cadek, first violin, Mr. Jaroslav Siskovsky, second violin, Mr. Ludvik Schwab, viola, and Mr. Bedrich Vaska, violin-cello, will assist Mr. Whiting...
...view that Liberia is "the white man's grave" is, in Mr. Schwab's opinion, wholly erroneous. He says, "During our seven months constant travelling in Liberia, with almost daily change of water, living largely off the country, under constant exposure to whatever 'dangers' to health there might be, we did not have a single day's illness." However, because of the complete ignorance of the natives of hygiene, and the fact that there are only three physicians in the whole hinterland, the population is likely to decrease rather than to increase. Mr. Schwab thinks that the country may once...
...Negro--"an inconsistency of impressions and sentiments, which only touch the consciousness without leaving there anything else but a fleeting imprint." The emotions of the Liberian native, his sentiments, his regard for truth, his loyalty, his conception of justice, and his capacity for work are dealt with in detail. Schwab says that the Negro is not lazy. "He is merely unoccupied because he has no imperious motive forcing him to work more than he does... His supreme joy is to impress others, even if only for an instant, and for this he will work long and hard... A chief...
Among the tangible results of the Schwab expedition are eighteen cases of ethnological specimens, about 500 negatives depicting various phases of native life, and 440 complete anthropometric records pertaining to the natives of ten different tribes. The monograph, which will be published after analysis of the field work, will, of course, be the most valuable contribution of the expedition to science...