Word: stewardship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happened every summer for 15 years the Rockefeller Foundation, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. as chairman of the trustees and George E. Vincent as president, last week made annual report of the stewardship of the millions which the Rockefellers have given...
...advice of Budget Director Lord and Treasury Estimator McCoy, warned of a deficit next June of 94 million dollars. Though it was only on paper, it was used in the campaign as an argument by Republicans against a change in administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March it had risen to 50 millions. Last week Mr. McCoy, anonymously, of course...
...longer the black-eyed, hoydenish Carmen or the pale, forsaken Butterfly, there is a tendency for many to regard her as a singer of bygone days. That Farrar still sings, however, that she still pursues an active career was proved by last week's account of a season's stewardship. She has covered a 21,000-mile concert tour which began in Manhattan, went through Canadian cities, through Manhattan again to Chicago, the Pacific Coast, back through the South. Often she gave three concerts a week, sometimes two a day. Last week fatigued, she arrived in Manhattan from New Orleans...
...Cross (of which the President is president) and of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mr. Hoover holds that excessive time and energy are spent in preparing material for such speeches. Two or three addresses a year, he hopes, will suffice to keep the country informed of his stewardship...
...commonplace that there has been for the past few years at Harvard a tendency to reduce course requirements and to place academic responsibility upon the student without demanding too frequent accounts of his stewardship. But in the midst of this movement there still remain a few courses which, in their irritating insistence upon periodical reckonings, are out of step with the times. Such a one, for example, is History 12. Here quizzes of the type given Freshman sections in elementary courses follow one another at fortnightly intervals; when there is no quiz, there is a short paper to be written...