Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Thomas Nicholason, of Detroit, President of the Anti-Saloon League of America: "Without offensive interference with the affairs of other nations, we are, in a: real sense, trustees of the world. If we have any good things, we must share them. To that end, we shall carry on this great worldwide campaign...
Proceedings of the Conference were opened by the British Premier with an address of welcome to the "representatives of the Nations that fought by our side while the War was raging, and that now share with us the responsibility of bringing peace and security to Europe." He then went on to stress the series of failures to solve the reparations problem, to discuss the Experts' Report, to remark that "the Report demands not only obligations from Germany but from us," to emphasize the need of unity among the assembled representatives. Said he: "Without unity there can be no security...
...high as the 1923 figure of $255,594,435; in 1922 it was $200,843,169. No previous year's net revenue has reached or surpassed 1923's record of $22,422,035, which compares with $4,375,373 in 1922, and amounts to $13.21 a share on the common stock, as against $2.56 the year before. The year 1923 was also a record one in the amount of freight handled...
...rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on consumption, to relieve the people of the present unjust burden of taxation and compel those who profited by the War to pay their share ot the War costs and to provide the funds for adjusted compensation solemnly pledged to the veterans ot the World...
...production has more than its fair share of novelties, chief of which is a deceptive lighting effect which changes girls in varicolored bathingsuits into marble statues in a wink. It also, by a painless amputation, obligingly transforms a damsel into the armless Venus de Milo...