Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should command the labor of a nation; yet it helped Sam Gompers to his high place. The cigar-makers worked better when their minds were busy. So they arranged for one of their number to read to them while they worked, making their own cigars and an equal share for the reader. Sam Gompers became a favorite reader. Thereby he acquired a precise enunciation, a mellifluous voice and an effective oral interpretation of words. It also brought him a wide contact with English literature, to which he added a knowledge of the works of English and German economists...
...hand at the present time and the extensive program of that department must be seriously curtailed unless the funds are forthcoming from the present drive. The entire quota of $4000 will have to be raised by Tuesday night if the social service work is to receive the full share planned for it in this year's budget...
...Their leader, Dunoff, attributed the Government opposition to enmity which the priests of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church hold for the apostolic simplicity of his sect. He also pointed out that during the ten-day convention members of the sect eat at a common table, like brothers and sisters, and share all things in common, according to the practice of the early Christians.* He also called attention to the fact that the present Bulgarian Government is reactionary, having attained power by murdering the peasant premier, Stambulski, Dunoff believes the Government is confusing his sect with the Communist party-a community...
...bank with 300,000 "partners," none of whom own more than one share of stock; a bank whose President and Chairman of the Board serve without pay; a bank charging only the " legal rate for interest on loans," without affiliated or subsidiary companies; in short, a " bank owned by the people at large," is the announced project of William C. Durant, spectacular motor financier. Its doors will open on 57th Street (near the tire and motor buildings of Broadway, Manhattan), and it will be known as " The Liberty National Bank...
...insulin substitute derived from green vegetables (TIME, June 4), and he especially profited by the friendly oversight and advice of Dr. J. J. R. McLeod, professor of physiology, who has also been mentioned for the Nobel Prize. To Dr. Banting, however, must always be given the lion's share of the credit for the idea and its development. In May, 1922, the work had proceeded far enough to be offered to the medical profession for testing. Tests, conducted by a special committee in several hospitals, have since proved the value of the specific, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has given...