Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fine sounding phrases," said she, "emanating from the silver-tongued orators of the 'pink' variety . . . are not meeting the present world situation. . . . Instead, it is our red-blooded American citizens of the Marines and the Navy in whom we must put our trust and upon whom America must depend if she is to keep her ratio of the world's peace...
...corporations were unfair to union labor. So the union ordered all its 5,000 members to refuse to work on stone cut by these corporations. Last week the Supreme Court reversed the decision of a lower court; ruled that the union was restraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, that the stone corporations were entitled to relief by injunction. Associate Justices Louis Dembitz Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, the two great liberals of the Supreme Court, dissented vigorously from this decision. Said Justice Brandeis: "They [the union members] were innocent alike of trespass and of breach of contract...
...Bankers Trust...
...these Armours lived three or four more years, President Roosevelt would have flayed them personally. As it was he pilloried their company as one of the vicious "trusts." It was that, for Philip D. Armour I, privately honest and eleemosynary, was in commerce ruthless. Like John D. Rockefeller Sr. in oil, he forced railroads to rebate him part of his payments for meat and grain transportation. Competitors suffered. Also like the elder Mr. Rockefeller, he made legitimate money by avoiding wastes and making savings in his business. Philip D. Armour I invented the scheme of utilizing every part...
...conference, W. W. Daly '19, secretary of student employment, discussed the problems relating to undergraduate employment, following which Assistant Dean Elliott Perkins 23 spoke on "College Life". "The Harvard Housing Trust" was the subject of the address by Dean G. H. Chase '96 of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...