Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second important task of the new board will be to help organize and finance special stabilization corporations among farmers to purchase surplus farm products from glutted seasonal markets and hold them in storage pending better prices. In the past such large-scale grain corporations on private capital and under private control have failed. It remains to be seen whether federal cash and supervision can make them successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market...
...money. He changed its name to System, The Magazine of Business, broadened its appeal, became Publisher Shaw. Circulalation increased still more. So Publisher Shaw made two magazines of it, called one System, the other The Magazine of Business. Both were monthlies. The first concerned itself with Office Management, the second with Big Business. In such form they became a part, last year, of the chain of magazines published by McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.* Last week another change was announced. Starting with next September, The Magazine of Business will become a weekly called The Business Week. System will...
Irene Ahlberg, a Manhattan stenographer, 18 and blond, won $1,000 and second honors...
...doing they do double harm to the nation. First they send our money abroad to America, a country which has just dealt a great blow to our export trade (TIME, April 8, et seq.) and second they take away work from Italian industries and laborers...
...places in the world, none is more popularly associated with singing than the bathroom. Last week, grand opera reached the bathroom. The curtain of Berlin's Second State Opera House, rising for the world premiere of Neues vom Tage (The Day's News), latest opus of ultra-modern Composer Paul Hindemith, revealed Primadonna Crete Stueckgold seated in a tub with real-looking soapsuds up to her chin, warbling about the delights of a hot bath...