Word: temperance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Henry Hollis Horton had appointed President George L. Berry of the International Pressman's Union as the State's mediator in this Labor dispute. Major Berry was born one county away from Happy Valley. He knows the temper of its people. He was a Vice Presidential candidate at the Republican National Convention last year. Great is his influence among Union Workers. Great is the respect U. S. publishers have for him, for his word keeps their presses turning. His good offices quickly settled the famed New York City Pressmen's strike in 1923, when for several days...
Then something happened. A rose bush was discovered where tulips should have been. Caretaker Grant lost his temper, the young man lost his job. And next night travelers Manhattan-bound on the State of Maine Express watched a young man, dark-eyed, keenly alert, chew a pencil, write many a word on many a piece of yellow paper. Soon in the Daily Mirror appeared a romantic piece about a "honeymoon nest." It purported to tell of the place where Anne Spencer Morrow, spinster, and Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, bachelor, will spend their first wedded days. And such a piece David...
Also in the field of law does Justice Stone stand strongly forth. No legal job is too hard for him to tackle. Well has he always guarded the public interest. Within him is centered a broad and understanding humanity to temper his justice. Tackle, guard or centre-Justice Stone has always been a comfort to the coach, in Washington as on the Amherst Gridiron...
...course in college, but that is far from being the only purpose of his undergraduate training. Much beside accurate scientific knowledge is to be required of him by his profession. Familiarity with the ways of men and skill in interpreting personalities as well as a certain flexibility of temper are still the marks of a successful physician or surgeon. The oultivation of these qualities is still essential for his preparation...
...twelve richest men in Europe is Belgium's picturesque, choleric Emile Francqui. Like the late great Cecil Rhodes, he found his fortune and lost his temper beneath the blazing sun of Africa-Belgian Congo. Three years ago, as Finance Minister, he won world fame by ''saving'' (stabilizing) the Belgian franc (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). For the past month he has represented Belgium on the Second Dawes Committee which is striving at Paris to revise the Dawes Plan (TIME, Feb. 18, et seq.). Last week a news leak from the secret Committee sessions revealed that...