Word: summing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Landon is much closer to the nomination than Herbart Hoover was at this same time in 1928. It's all over but calling the roll, in my opinion." Thus did a prominent Republican politician of Massachusetts sum, up the pre-convention situation, as Grand Old Partizans of New England prepare to entrain for the Cleveland Convention, which opens June...
...sales volume to make money. President Paepcke thought that quantity would be his company's salvation. But to conservative Boxmaker Brunt, whose credo was quality, the Paepcke policy seemed all wrong. Stubborn, he started a proxy fight to oust his young boss, lost in 1931. Accepting a lump-sum settlement for his salary contract, Brunt...
Their generosity has sprung partially from a feeling of obligation to the University. That is they received their education for a nominal sum aggregating far less than the actual cost of that education. Also, they have felt that the College represented a conservative force in the United States which was infinitely valuable during many years of stress and struggle, a force which advanced steadily on an even keel despite upheavals which were apparent on all sides...
...sum and in its component parts, the production of Shaw's "Saint Joan" which Katharine Cornell is now displaying at the Opera House commands designation as the climax of a long and varied theatrical season. A superbly talented cast has been welded into an almost flawless presentation of a spectacularly brilliant, mordantly witty and powerfully moving play...
Criticized for their penchant for spending vast sums on time-tested Titians and Rembrandts while ignoring living artists, the august Metropolitan's directors have lately begun to take a few chances on moderns. But they do not take very big chances, and last week dazed Rob Godfrey refused to reveal the "very modest sum" the Metropolitan had paid for his portrait. "It might." said sensible Anneliese Godfrey, "cause clients to want to have their portraits done for the same price, or cheaper...