Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition will be of seven weeks duration and those that come out today will not suffer because of their late start. All those who wish to try for the position, are requested by the cross-country management to report at the H. A. A. at 1.15 o'clock this afternoon...
...Republican Party, which he now repudiates, was satisfactory to him when it had shrunk to a minority fragment dominated exclusively by its conservative element. He said in 1912: "If they [the leaders] are recreant to their trust, the party may suffer the temporary defeat of its purposes. But what abject folly to seek upon such a basis to destroy a great political party. . . . with a clear progressive majority in its ranks, within which there has been builded up a progressive movement that promises to make the Republican Party the instrument through which the government will be restored to the people...
...payment of unearned dividends out of surplus is very generally frowned upon in corporation practice. Yet, in part at least, this is what surplus is for. Moreover the structure of the Reserve Banks might well suffer, should their dividends be long cut or suspended. Their stock is held by the member banks, state or national. The latter must belong to the system under the law. But membership in the state banks is entirely optional, and many state banks have never seen fit to join the system, thereby decreasing the control and leadership of the system over the country...
That abortion of a monument to Edith Cavell, British nurse shot as a spy by the Germans in 1915, is to suffer a slight alteration. At present it has written on it the words "For King and Country." Her last words are now to be included: "Patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness for anyone...
...Manhattan dinner which I attended, together with Editor Swope of The New York World, conversation and speeches agitated the idea of getting the G. O. P. convention for New York in 1928. It was urged by many who heard of this dinner that the Republicans would not suffer from the chief pestilence that fell upon the Democrats in Madison Square Garden-namely, Tammany hooligans in the galleries...