Word: stewardship
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...times intimated his absolute confidence in the trustworthiness of his servants. He said so in outright fashion to the Filipinos who objected to Governor General Wood, his legate in the Philippines. Two weeks ago a Republican insurgent in Congress presented a resolution for an investigation of General Wood's stewardship in the islands. That was an indication that there were rumors in the political winds...
Just before the recent election, the President, addressing the majority leader in the House of Representatives, gave an informal report, an account of stewardship, of the work of Congress in the past few years. He mentioned the reduction of annual public expenditures of over three billions in two years--a result of a budget system created by Congressional enactment. The reduction in military expenditures was referred to; and the flexibility and adaptability of the tariff to changing conditions, through provision for administrative adjustment. The Bonus Bill, and certain widely-attacked schedules of the Tariff Act, are not mentioned. Times...
...seven years a professor at the University of Leyden before coming to the University as a professor of Early Christian literature. He is Vice-president of the Churchmen's Union of England and is the author of "The Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ" and "The Stewardship of Faith...
...sport writing fraternity recognize their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport. This may be due to self-consciousness, or sheer ignorance of the sanctity of their calling. Or it may be that damnable attitude which is marked throughout the whole American journalistic profession; refusal to take oneself, or what one is doing too seriously. Which is the reason I presume, why anyone attempting the duties of a physician, a lawyer, a banker, a plumber, or a clergyman, has the firm theory that he could edit a newspaper better than it is being edited, could write...
...changed their character as mere sport and made them important adjuncts to statecraft and diplomacy". His task has expanded beyond the realm of common reporter so that today it is of such significance that Mr. Perry feels justified in saying that there are few sport writers who "recognized their stewardship in respect to the ethics and morals of amateur sport...