Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Trade depends upon public confidence in the honesty of its members, and all too often that honesty has been doubted. The Federal Government already pretends to supervise transactions on the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Illinois legislature last week sought laws to regulate the Board, similar to the laws by which New York legislators control the New York Stock Exchange. Board members hope that they can tighten up their own already existing rules and thus avoid the further fussings of lawmakers. The ejection of Armour Grain Co. aids their program...
...that the so called Mencken school has developed. It is perfectly natural to criticise American Rotaryism, religious Ligotry, and other popular foibles, vet whenever anyone does it, Mencken is immediately blamed or credited, because he was the first to find similar faults glaring enough to attract attention...
...endowment sought by Yale University marks another step in the advance of American education along lines long followed by Oxford and Cambridge. The major part of the endowment budget is intended to provide an adequate personnel to carry out a system of collegiate honors similar to that of the English universities...
Bernarr Macfadden publishes in his tabloid newspaper, the New York pornoGraphic, full, front page pictures of Rudolph Valentino's "ghost" in pajamas. He publishes composite faked pictures of old lechers, young miscegenators, alleged murderers, undressed girls. But Publisher Macfadden rises in dudgeon when similar liberties are taken with his own, more robust physique...
...extremely interesting." Some shareholders thought he hinted at a merger of Studebaker with other motor car companies, for the entire industry is alive with rumors of mergers and new alignments. But more probably, in the case of this old family corporation, the "interesting announcement" will be price reductions, similar to the price reductions made last week by Pierce-Arrow...