Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...highly perplexing phase of democracy. That young men differ in the ability to pass written examinations we have long frankly recognized. That they differ as widely in personality and character we are now forced to admit by the inadequacy of our resources to deal with the rising tide of applicants for admission. In an era of much confusion and threatened chaos it is indispensable that the amenities no less than the intellectualities be concentrated and conserved, the highest character and traditions of American life. The means adopted by Harvard seem admirably calculated to accomplish this while avoiding the un-Americanism...
...expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week-sent to the Senate those clauses of the tax bill which the Chamber had voted before it upset the Cabinet. From these driblets of added taxation it is hoped to tide matters over for a few weeks more...
Three weeks ago Blair & Co., Inc., and Chase Securities Corp. anticipated this merger by buying 300,000 shares (55%) of Associated Oil. They offered sellers $145,000,000 in cash or $165,000,000 in exchange securities (TIME, Feb. 15). Now to Tide Water shareholders they offer one and one-third shares of the new common for one share of the old. Preferred shares will exchange evenly...
Associated Oil ranks next to Standard Oil on the Pacific Coast. Tide Water Oil is formidable along the Atlantic, has large workings in the mid-continent field. Together they have the corporate right "to engage in the petroleum business generally, including the power to acquire securities of other companies." The bankers will give no intimations of what concerns may be taken...
...Axtell J. Byles; directors: Henry W. de Forest of Manhattan, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Southern Pacific Co.; W. F. Humphrey of San Francisco, Director of Associated Oil Co.; Paul Shoup of San Francisco, President of Associated Oil Co.; Robert McKelvy of Manhattan, Vice President of Tide Water Oil Co.; Axtell J. Byles, President of Tide Water Oil Co.; E. L. Shea, Vice President of Tide Water Oil Co., and George White of Marietta, Ohio...