Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Lloyd Hopkins ever becomes Iowa's favorite son, Iowa can thank his daughter. He announced last week that he would presently re-establish himself as a resident of Grinnell, la., which he left 27 years ago after graduating from the college there. A Hopkins from Iowa would be much more available politically in 1940 than a Hopkins from the District of Columbia or New York, but his friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends...
Such human characteristics have endeared President Dennison to his 2,700 employes, who also thank him for progressive management. He was among the first industrialists to try employe representation, has only one vote on a management board consisting of eight employes and himself. He has written several sound books on management, has long sponsored a system of unemployment insurance...
...could say "thank God I am a Northerner." Instead, I merely state that it is indeed fortunate the educated Southern-American is not as narrow and intolerant as one Schwab. Apparently Washington has not buried all its intellectually dead-it lets them write letters...
Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...Stuart Friedkin '42 when informed of the official requirement exclaimed, "My God, we're being crucified. Thank Heavens it only costs $50 to change a course...