Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inquisitors regretted it exceedingly, too. They had to ask Col. Stewart to take the stand again next day. Again he professed ignorance and unconcern as to how Sinclair and his associates* of the Continental Trading Co. "rigged the deal...
...Haig shall be Haig of Bemerside!" Did he hum those words when, amid a murderous fire at Ypres, he went to hearten his troops within the battle area itself? Characteristically the last formal act of his life was to address a Boy Scout rally, last week on his estate. "Stand up for England when people speak disrespect- fully of her!" he said. On the evening of the next day, as Earl Haig stood up to put on his pajamas and then sat down on the edge of his bed, he was stricken with heart failure, died instantly...
...Tentative results of this survey show the most common occupations to be: factory work (assembling, packing, inspection, glass-cutting, working punch and drill presses); piano tuning; store & stand keeping; salesmanship (especially insurance); teaching; music (organ, radio concert work, vaudeville, orchestra). Less fre- quent occupations: osteopathy, journalism, poultry raising, stenography, law, operating dictaphones...
...Insurance Co. of America; W. E. Betteridge, President of Lakeside Biscuit Co., Toledo; Thomas J. O'Connor, President of Purity Baking Co., Chicago; Benjamin Ernstein, President of Barnard Phillips & Co., Bankers, New York; C. K. Corbin, Lawyer, Jersey City. At the head of the board of trustees will stand Grace Knight Babson, wife of Trustee Roger Ward Babson, famed financial dopester. At Babson Park, Massachusetts, Trustee Babson creates charts, graphs, tables of statistics, advises investors. At Babson Park, Florida, Chairman Grace Babson will train her flock to use charts, graphs, statistics, become investors. Trustees of Bennington College, chartered...
...want to tell you people that the underworld is wonderfully organized. . . . It is so powerful that if my identity were known as I stand here, a bomb might be pitched at my feet...