Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Before I took office ... in 1921 . . . I resigned every office I then held in any corporation and resigned all my directorates. ... I sold every share of stock I owned in every national bank, trust company or other banking institution. I then owned and I now own a substantial amount of stock in the Gulf Oil Corp., the Aluminum Co. of America, Standard Steel Car Co. and other business corporations, but in every case my holding is very much less than a majority of the voting stock of such corporations. . . . My active connection with them was severed in 1921 as completely...
...time would seem ripe for some new gentlemen's agreement which would bring to Harvard and her major competitors an equal share in the disadvantages of a certain proportion of public practice sessions. With all parties starting thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats as the result of too few secret practices; and the team might regain some of that organic unity with the student and alumni, the loss of which has lead to the recent plaintive whining about lack of vocal support...
...audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas City who had paid $50,000 for a special train to carry them there for the great night. Kansas City had found Marion Talley. Kansas City had launched her, backed her. Kansas City was there to share in the glory...
Contrastingly, Canada's N. C. E. is a shrewd publicist. In 23 Canadian cities and towns are its committees, busy, responsible. No educators may serve on these. Thus is the laity made education-conscious, made to share Canada's educators' responsibility and work...
...discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad championing the superior ideals of the American people and brought to infinite distress...