Word: smithness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reminded that Al Smith was looking for a scientific definition for an intoxicating beverage and it may be that Senator Jones was the scientist for whom he was seeking...
...turned over to directors' wives some of whom last year profited to the extent of $4,100 in this way. Mr. Coolidge, retired public servant, is not alone in being elevated to high office in a big insurance company. Last month Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. elected Alfred Emanuel Smith to its board of directors.* There he will sit with one-time Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Alanson Bigelow Houghton (Republican),† President of the Associated Press Frank Brett Noyes (Republican), Steelman Charles Michael Schwab (Republican), Lawyer John William Davis (Democrat...
...Smith's company is also a mutual company and therefore, by the Coolidge dictum, the Brown Derby is now performing a public service equal to Mr. Coolidge's -even a larger public service because Metropolitan Life is far larger than New York Life. A mutual company is owned by its policy holders, who share in its profits, whereas non-mutual companies are owned by stockholders who alone receive dividends. Sharp rivalry exists between Mr. Coolidge's company and Mr. Smith's company. A comparison: Mr. Smith's Company Assets-$2,695,475,965 1928 Income...
...Coolidge-Smith rivalry in private life will soon also extend to literature. Last week it was reported that Mr. Smith will write a series of personal and political reminiscences for the Saturday Evening Post. † New York Life had the late Myron Timothy Herrick, Ambassador to France, on its board. It was to succeed Mr. Herrick that Citizen Coolidge was elected...
...secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths to Canada. The prediction was made that the Canadian Government would soon kick over the U. S. distribution scheme by taking all the channels...