Word: statements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...service as a public trust. Its duty is to provide the American public with . . . service at a reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming of a new philosophy of business as well as a ponderous rap at lightweight Wall Street gamblers...
Said Builder Ley: "The five-day week is inevitable." True, he referred to the building trades in New York City. But five-day-week advocates everywhere cheered his statement, cheered even more loudly when he added that "The five-day movement has gained a real foothold and its adoption may reach throughout the country." A national five-day week would make Saturday leisure equal to Sunday; would give to millions of U. S. car-owning workers an additional day of relaxation, refreshment. Thus merchants of food, drink and transportation beamed and smiled...
...ESSAYS ON ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY-C. G. Jung-Translated by H. G. Baynes-Dodd Mead ($4). The first consecutive statement, in English, of psychoanalysis as revised by Jung, the unorthodox Freudian with the mystical tendency. His explanation reveals a great vitality of thinking that is cluttered by the very mass of his thoughts-difficult reading, but well worth the trouble...
...situation in regard to the H. A. A. surplus has not been much clarified by the recent statement from University Hall that the Corporation has "no intention of acquiring a ten million dollar endowment fund for the support of athletics." Out of a host of possibilities one is withdrawn. The present surplus may be allowed to accumulate to an indefinite size and for no purpose at all as far as one can tell from the Delphic utterance of the authorities...
Reports concerning a proposed $10,000,000 permanent endowment for the Harvard Athletic Association were yesterday denied in a statement release from University Hall which ran as follows...