Word: soles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Premier Baldwin later in the day made extension of the franchise the strongest point of his speech on government policy, promising to make Britain "truly democratic" before the next general elections. He then charged Viscount Rothermere, Tzar of British newspaperdom, with sole opposition to granting young women the vote and went on paradoxically to challenge that the "noble Lord" state before all the world whether he was now supporting the Conservatives or the Liberals...
Such delay is remarkable aside from the fact that it costs the Ford plant almost a million dollars a day. The Ford corporation that feeds and mans the big guns is a small, easily handled squad of three-its sole stockholders are Henry Ford, Mrs. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. G. M. C., on the other hand, has a corps of over 80 high executives, its J. P. Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast...
President Edward Henry Harriman Simmons of the New York Stock Exchange appeared on the rostrum for the second time in ten days to declare a member expelled. This time it was G. B. Todd, sole floor representative of the firm of Gordon B. Todd & Co., who had violated two rules: 1) pledging more securities of certain customers than was fair in view of the customer's indebtedness to the firm; 2) failing to answer that part of the questionnaire regularly submitted by the Exchange to its members in which explanation is demanded of how the firm guards against just...
...well as to pay for sundry expenses occurred by the Student Council, as in furnishing Freshman common rooms and so forth. The $12,000 budget is divided among all the institutions which would otherwise have to solicit independently. The budget pledges which average about $5, therefore constitute the sole expense of this sort incurred...
...more or less confidential files of the Bureau. And it is annoying, if nothing else, to have to fill out blanks about one's personal affairs, home address, father's name, and et cetera and ad absurdum. No intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill out the blank, depart, and never more return. The independent student will sneer...